Associate Dentist - Fee-for-Service, Partnership Track

Job Description

Job Description

Associate Dentist — Fee-for-Service Practice | Partnership Track | New Grads Welcome!
Marietta Dentist · Marietta, GA · Full-time · Wed–Sat, 9 AM–5 PM.

Why this job is different:

Marietta Dentist is a 100% fee-for-service, out-of-network practice located at a busy intersection in the heart of Marietta. No insurance dictating your treatment plans. No cramming 30 patients into a day to make the math work. You diagnose what the patient needs, present it, and get paid your full fee.

This is an associate position with a real, defined path to ownership, and you’ll be mentored directly by the practice owner on both the clinical and business sides of running a successful FFS practice.

Compensation:

• Guaranteed $850/day for your first 90 days (4 days/week) while you ramp up.
• After 90 days: tiered collections 25%-35%.
• No lab fees charged on crowns or restorative work (specialty cases excluded). Most offices deduct lab costs before paying you. We don’t. That’s a meaningful raise on every crown you deliver.
• FFS fee schedule means every procedure pays full fee, so your 25% is worth significantly more than 25% at a PPO office.

Schedule:

Wednesday through Saturday, 9 AM to 5 PM. A true 4-day week with a 3-day weekend built in (Sunday–Tuesday).

What you’ll do:

You’ll own the comprehensive side of the practice: new patient exams, preventive and periodontal care (prophylaxis, scaling and root planing, periodontal maintenance), restorative, and prosthetic treatment. You’ll provide hygiene care yourself, which means you build a direct relationship with every patient from their first cleaning through their full treatment plan, and every hygiene visit is a treatment-planning opportunity that pays you.

The schedule is full, the team is trained on case presentation and in-house patient financing, and the front office handles the admin. Your job is to be an excellent clinician and build long-term relationships with your patients.

Complex endo, wisdom teeth, and sedation cases stay with the owner in-house, so you’ll see how those are worked up and managed without carrying them yourself.

New grads: this is the right place to start:

Where you spend your first two years shapes the dentist you become. Start in a volume PPO or DSO chair and you learn to work fast, diagnose narrow, and treat to what insurance pays. Start here and you learn to diagnose comprehensively, present full treatment with confidence, and build the habits of excellent care from day one. We’d rather train the right person than retrain someone who learned the wrong way.

The partnership track:

We’re building a group of owner-dentists, not a DSO. The path:

• Associate (year 1–2): Build your production, learn our systems, show clinical and cultural fit.
• Partnership offer: Buy into Marietta Dentist, or open a new location together. We bring the capital, real estate, business systems, and back office. You bring the clinical leadership.
• Owner: Equity, profit share, and a real say in how the practice runs.

The track is optional. If you’d rather be a great associate long-term, that’s a real role here. But if you want ownership, this is the fastest, lowest-risk way to get there.

Who we’re looking for:

• DDS or DMD with an active Georgia license (or eligible to obtain)
• New grads through experienced associates. Judgment and drive matter more than years.
• Comfortable providing hygiene and periodontal care as part of a comprehensive practice
• Comfortable diagnosing comprehensively and presenting full treatment
• Wants to be in one place long-term and build something
• Coachable, high-ownership, and honest with patients and the team

How to apply?

Submit your resume along with a short note on why fee-for-service dentistry and a partnership path appeal to you. Qualified candidates will complete a brief personality survey and a few written questions before interviewing. The owner reads every application personally.