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St. Louis, Missouri

Lead Dentist

DentistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$200k-$250k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

  • Lead Dentist – St. Louis, MO
  • Department: Clinical Excellence
  • Location: St. Louis, MO Market
  • Schedule: Full-Time | 2–3 Clinical Days + 2 Administrative Days
  • Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 Salary + Bonus
  • PTO: Choose between 4 weeks of PTO upfront or our standard PTO accrual schedule; negotiable
  • Direct Reports: Approximately 5–10 Dentists and Dental Hygienists

About Enable Dental

Enable Dental brings high-quality, compassionate dental care directly to patients who may have difficulty accessing traditional dental offices. We serve PACE participants, nursing and assisted living residents, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through our mobile and portable dental model.

About the Role

The Lead Dentist serves as the clinical leader for the St. Louis market while continuing to provide direct patient care. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced dentist who enjoys both clinical dentistry and mentoring other providers.

You will spend 2–3 days providing patient care and 2 protected administrative days leading and developing the market's clinical team.

Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive, preventive, restorative, surgical, emergency, and prosthetic care to geriatric, medically complex, and special needs patients.

  • Serve as the primary clinical resource for dentists and hygienists within the market.
  • Conduct chart audits and ensure providers meet Enable Dental's clinical and documentation standards.
  • Mentor, coach, and support dentists and hygienists through case consultation and ongoing development.
  • Participate in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and performance management of clinical team members.
  • Partner with Clinical Team Managers to support efficient scheduling, equipment, supplies, and daily operations.
  • Represent Enable Dental with facility and PACE partners when needed.
  • Help ensure consistent, high-quality patient care across the entire market.

Qualifications

  • DDS or DMD from a CODA-accredited program.
  • Active, unrestricted Missouri dental license.
  • Active DEA registration and current BLS certification.
  • 5+ years of clinical experience.
  • 2+ years of experience supervising, mentoring, or leading clinicians.
  • Experience with geriatric, special needs, PACE, nursing home, or medically complex patients is preferred.
  • Mobile or portable dentistry experience is a plus.

Why Enable Dental?

Join a mission-driven organization where you can continue practicing dentistry while developing other clinicians, elevating quality of care, and making a meaningful difference in the lives of underserved patients.

$200,000–$250,000 salary + bonus | Full-Time | St. Louis, MO | PTO options available

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Comprehensive DentistryPreventive DentistryRestorative DentistrySurgical DentistryEmergency DentistryProsthetic DentistryGeriatric DentistrySpecial Needs DentistryClinical LeadershipChart AuditingClinical DocumentationMentoring and CoachingRecruiting and Onboarding

Dentistry Career Context

Of the 49 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 24% have no call, 92% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$225k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $248k in an average-cost state. 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score3.6 / 10 · above average in dentistranked against 3,154 Dentist listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed pay$200k–$250kDentist median $250k (middle half $200k–$300k)405 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$248k in purchasing powerMissouri index 90.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Dentistry listings in Missouri51 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All dentist listings in Missouri142 active5,911 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 24% no call · 92% no weekends49 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusMissouri healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 18% state a sign-on bonus (median $18k) · 3% offer loan repayment142 active listings, Nov 2026
New Dentistry listings250 in the last 30 days204 the 30 days before (+23%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (3,154 Dentist listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Missouri figures use all dentists: too few Missouri Dentistry postings state pay.

Top Dentist Jobs

9 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

9 jobs · 8 employers
2
<$275k
0
$275k-300k
5
$300k-325k
0
$325k-350k
2
$350k

Annual compensation range

Work-Life Balance Distribution

9 jobs · 8 employers
0
1-2
0
3-4
0
5-6
8
7-8
1
9-10

Higher = better work-life balance

#1

Dentist

Dental Dreams · Chicago Heights, Illinois

$290k-$350k
#2

Part Time Dentist

Dentserv Dental Services · Brooklyn, New York

$250k-$350k
#3

Staff Dentist

$191k-$304k
#4

Full Time Associate Dentist

$300k
+ 7 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 3.6
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 Enable Dental

Hospitals and Health Care
Austin, TX
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

PTO: 4 weeks upfront or standard accrual
Bonus

Living in St. Louis

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$255k≈ 1.3× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,292/mo≈ 8% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.1
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · St. Louis, MO-IL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.