Aspen Dental Reviews

Pros

Motivating and inspiring culture to be a part of. Continued coaching and development from my director. Love growing relationships with my teams and doctors and watching them grow

Advice to Management

Don’t leave RMs out of the leadership retreats. We are the ones working day in and day out to grow these doctors and help them reach their potential. If an RM has a doctor attending the retreat then the RM should be there as well.

Pros

Great opportunity for advancement ,great benefits including medical vision and dental after 90 days , 2 weeks paid vacation and 3 personal day and holiday pay after 1 year

Pros

Lots of perks if you're an OM, hygienist or a doctor.

Advice to Management

Instead of sending out all these little trinkets, use the 0.10 you just wasted and give it to the employees.

Pros

Experience in corporate dentistry, there really is nothing more that is positive to say. You will most likely leave within a year of your start date

Advice to Management

This company started out as a good idea. Bob realized the market was there and he went after it. Dentists don’t want to be business managers. When it was the core group, it ran true and the mission was cohesive... that was around 600 practices ago. Now add investors, hungry for growth, corporate cronyism, poor marketing and owners disenchanted with the “new model”. The problem is, the dream is not what the model reflects today. C-suite knows this and if they really wanted to, they could pop in to any practice or any group of practices to see what today’s “right looks like”. Instead, visits are like presidential visits, groomed, calibrated and planned. VP’s tell them where to go, move people out of practices before their visit, NIMBYism at its’ corporate finest.
Associate dentists are told they will be mentored without enforcing current owners to do so and so many are left without support in their first year. Incentives are not standard across the board, owners can play with them at their whims. Turnover for DA’s is crazy and hygienists are constantly pushed to sell. If you work with a good owner, you will have a positive experience. If not, sorry! The winds are shifting. Millennials want a positive experience. If there isn’t a change, you will have a much more difficult time staffing offices. Visit any dental or hygiene school. They no longer preach no DSO’s but they still say no Aspen Dental. I hope you find your center again. The original dream was a good one. Your friends who are paid off in corporate dividends will never tell you this but it is true. You need to get back to basics and slow down and focus on your people.

Pros

Experience, cheap dental work, networking, contests, self gratification

Advice to Management

Too much to explain. The compensation for work completed is not at all liveable.

Pros

You will learn a lot because you won’t be trained probably.
You will become an independent leader because they will not support you.
It is great experience for those looking to move up quickly.

Advice to Management

Don’t talk about people as chess pieces. See them as humans and people who have needs too.

Pros

Beautiful, well-equipped facilities in great business locations; top-notch marketing with matching software to monitor business trends; competitive salaries for dental providers with minimal experience and maximum enthusiasm.

Advice to Management

When production and collections numbers trend downward, understand that decreasing the payroll numbers by terminating staff in absolutely no way helps to improve the financial health of that office. No dental office that claims to be full-service can be successful without a well-staffed dental hygiene department. Highly motivated personnel are the key to a profitable business, and staying within restrictive budgets is contrary to motivation and growth. It takes money to make money, so don't let frugality totally dominate your business decisions. Save up for those rainy days and then watch the grass grow greener.

Pros

Vacation, that’s about all I can think of

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees, be more transparent,

Pros

Learning , development, benefits, vacation, paid holidays off , 401k match

Advice to Management

be honest

Pros

Management isn't the best but still takes care of things outside dentistry for you such as HR, marketing.