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Aria Care Partners
Columbia, South Carolina

Traveling Dentist – Nursing Home Care

DentistPart-Time

Compensation

Pay not listed

The week · per this posting

Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.

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Job Description

We seek a highly skilled and compassionate Mobile Dentist to join our dynamic team!

As a Mobile Dentist, your locations will be 20 minutes to 2 hours away. You are paid for all drive and clinic time.

If you are a new college graduate or experienced Dentist, this opportunity is for you!

Being a Mobile Dentist with Aria Care Partners provides you with the opportunity to deliver unmatched patient care to residents in skilled nursing facilities. You will be responsible for assessing dental health, addressing dental concerns, developing and discussing the treatment plan, performing limited procedures, and conducting oral cancer screenings.

Work-Life Balance that Works for You! We are seeking a Dentist for three days per week. We work with your schedule!

Compensation

Competitive pay with a minimum daily guarantee. Drive time + Clinic time is all compensated.

Responsibilities

  • Develop treatment plans to manage, improve, and treat dental and oral health issues
  • Perform simple procedures such as exams, fillings, extractions, and denture-related services.
  • Order diagnostic measures, such as x-rays.
  • Apply helpful agents to teeth, such as silver diamine fluoride, to arrest decay.
  • Maintain accurate dental records.

Manage and communicate with the facility and family to ensure the patient has the proper support for successful daily oral hygiene.

Do what you do best: patient care! We focus on the clinical operations team managing all the coordination, including Scheduling and billing, so you can stay focused on doing what you love, providing "The Senior Standard of Care" to our patients!

Aria Care Partners is the national leader in providing onsite dental, vision, hearing, and podiatry care to over 3500 long-term care and skilled nursing facilities across 25 states. Aria Care Partners believes that our clinicians should be able to focus on providing the best, most comprehensive care for their patients.

Our clinicians visit different skilled nursing communities daily, bringing life-affirming care to an underserved population. Our business model, innovation, customer support and teamwork deliver an unparalleled customer experience, resulting in a customer satisfaction rating of over 98%.

Executing this strategic philosophy resulted in rapid company growth with revenue increases of 25%-30% annually over the last 4 years, nearly doubling the size of the company.

Company values include caring fully for our customers and fellow employees, striving for excellence and continuous improvement, and excelling through the power of teamwork and collaboration. At Aria Care Partners, our mission is to enrich the quality of life for every resident with passion and compassion.

Working at Aria Matters!

Requirements

The posting welcomes both new dental college graduates and experienced dentists, but does not specify a required number of years of experience or formal credentials. The role requires providing mobile dental care at skilled nursing facilities and working three days per week; travel and clinic time are compensated.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Dental ExaminationsTreatment PlanningDental X-RaysSilver Diamine Fluoride ApplicationOral Cancer ScreeningDental RecordkeepingOral Hygiene SupportCommunicationCare Coordination

General Dentistry Career Context

Of the 49 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 27% have no call, 92% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for South Carolina is 93.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.6% of South Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedDentist median $250k (middle half $200k–$300k)382 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingSouth Carolina index 93.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
General Dentistry listings in South Carolina24 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All dentist listings in South Carolina140 active6,023 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 27% no call · 92% no weekends49 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedSouth Carolina healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 29% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 1% offer loan repayment140 active listings, Nov 2026
New General Dentistry listings653 in the last 30 days423 the 30 days before (+54%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. South Carolina figures use all dentists: too few South Carolina General Dentistry postings state pay.

Top Dentist Jobs

17 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

13 jobs
3
<$260k
1
$260k
6
$290k-320k
0
$320k-350k
3
$350k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

13 jobs
CME allowance
54%
401k / retirement match
54%
Sign-on bonus
46%
Loan repayment
31%
Visa sponsorship
23%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 2.8
Better work-life than 50% of Dentist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,154 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Aria Care Partners

Hospitals and Health Care
Overland Park, Kansas
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive Pay
Minimum Daily Guarantee
Compensated Drive Time
Compensated Clinic Time
Flexible Schedule
Work-Life Balance

Living in Columbia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$218k
Typical market rent
$1,500/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.7
State income tax
Up to 6.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Columbia, SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.