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Star Dental Partners
Slidell, Louisiana

Dental Hygienist -2K Sign On Bonus Eligible

Dental HygienistFull-Time

Compensation

Pay not listed

The week · per this posting · Monday – Thursday

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

  • Crossgates Dental is now hiring a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) in Slidell, LA!
  • $2000 Sign On Bonus Eligible!
  • $1000 Annual Continuing Education (CE)
  • Hygienist Schedule: Monday - Thursday 7:40 am - 5:00 pm
  • 1 hour for lunch
  • We're flexible!

Full or Part Time Schedule

  • To learn more about this practice, visit: slidelldentists.net
  • Advantages
  • Patient-centric community approach
  • Established practices in modern facilities
  • Private practice culture with complete business support
  • Work/life balance
  • Career growth
  • Professional development
  • Continuing education
  • Competitive compensation and full-time employment benefits including:
  • (FTE eligible at 28 or more clinical hours per week)
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Company Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury Duty
  • Paid $25K Basic Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life and ADD Insurance
  • Pet Insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for all employees and their household
  • Accidental Injury, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity plans with wellness incentives

Responsibilities

  • Screening patients during check-ups
  • Reviewing patient's history
  • Administers prophylactic treatment by scaling and polishing
  • Documents area of existing restorations
  • Use of X-ray
  • Instructing patients in oral hygiene technique and working with patients and their oral hygiene
  • Conduct screenings
  • Assist patients with oral hygiene

Qualifications

  • Active Louisiana Hygienist license
  • Current BLS/CPR certifications
  • Maintain annual OSHA, HIPAA and Infection Control training
  • Minimum 1 or more years of RDH clinical experience

Equal Employment Opportunity

Star Dental Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Key Skills

Dental hygienePatient screeningOral hygiene instructionBLS certificationCPR certificationOSHA complianceHIPAA compliance

Dental Hygiene Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Dental Hygienist listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

How does Star Dental Partners compare as an employer?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · above average in dental hygienistranked against 2,151 Dental Hygienist listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedDental Hygienist median $94k (middle half $83k–$114k)59 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingLouisiana index 88.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Dental Hygiene listings in Louisiana20 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All dental hygienist listings in Louisiana62 active5,814 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 36% no call · 64% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repayment$2k sign-onUS healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 27% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 6% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Dental Hygiene listings793 in the last 30 days436 the 30 days before (+82%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (2,151 Dental Hygienist listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Louisiana figures use all dental hygienists: too few Louisiana Dental Hygiene postings state pay.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Dental Hygienist -2K Sign On Bonus Eligible at Star Dental Partners a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Dental Hygienist — ranked against 2,151 active Dental Hygienist listings on WeekdayDoc.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 6.4
Better work-life than 70% of Dental Hygienist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,151 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Star Dental Partners

Hospitals and Health Care
Plano, Texas
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

$2000 Sign On Bonus Eligible
$1000 Annual Continuing Education (CE)
Medical, Dental, and Vision
Paid Time Off
401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Company Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury Duty
Paid $25K Basic Life Insurance
Voluntary Life and ADD Insurance

Living in Slidell

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$205k
Typical market rent
$1,489/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.6
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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