In our previous blogs, we have discussed a lot about the benefits of a mobile dentist. This may have prompted some people to switch from their traditional practice and add mobility to their practice. While there are a lot of rewards when it comes to adding mobility to your practice, there are also numerous challenges involves.

Advantages

There are a lot of advantages to adding home care to traditional dental practice. Schedules can be filled and it is a good way to promote your practice outside your office. You also increase your net income with a little financial outlay. An important consideration is that added consultation time calls for more fees than those charged by fixed dental offices and travel. When a dentist is working in a fixed office, there are a lot of insurance charges attached to it and most of these charges are transferred to the customer. This makes mobile dental service cheaper since they don’t incur additional costs of paying rent, insurance and maintenance for the property.

Obstacles to mobile dentistry

On the other hand, it is not simple to start a mobile clinic. There are some challenges involved. First, the profession does not consider alternative care models along with their advantages, a financial professional and so on.

The second challenge is that dental schools that don’t educate students in the management of a private practice or the necessity to evaluate their financial responsibilities at graduation.

The third challenge of being a mobile dentist is that caretakers and patients who fail to comprehend the extra costs can sabotage your practice. Remember earlier on we said that mobile dentists are cheaper because they don’t incur additional charges for rent and insurance. But there are some exceptions especially when they have to travel for long distances in unfavourable places for driving just to meet clients.