Employment and independence

employment possibilities:

Private practice: The dental hygienist predominantly works as a employee of a dentist or works as an independent dental hygienist sharing the office with a dentist. In a dental private practice, the dental hygienist can utilised all of the skills she has learned in school, like making terminal injections, radiographs, deep scaling and root planning etc..

Independent DH in own practice: In the canton Zurich and in some other cantons, the dental hygienist can work independently in a private practice. The health authorities reserve the right to regulate the treatments which the dental hygienist are allowed to perform in their private practice.
In this case, she is not allowed to make terminal injections, radiographs, deep scaling and root planning etc., unless a dentist is in the office and takes the responsibility.

Public service: In addition, the dental hygienist has the opportunity to work in other fields of education, for example in kindergartens, hospitals, homes, dental medical universities or as an instructor in dental hygiene schools.