Staffing shortages continue to impact nearly every role in a dental practice:

The shortage isn't limited to hygienists — it also significantly affects dental assistants and front office teams, which are critical to daily operations and patient flow.

Traditional hiring can leave positions unfilled for extended periods — impacting production, patient care, and team workload.

Cloud Dentistry enables a faster, more flexible hiring workflow. Here's how each step works inside your account:

From the Professionals tab, you can view dental professionals in your area along with their background and typical availability. Click a professional's name to see their full schedule and reviews from other practices, and message them directly before booking or inviting them to apply.

Read Search Features for Offices to learn how to filter by distance, skills, and availability, and what determines how results are ranked.

Why it matters: You connect with candidates immediately instead of waiting for applications.

Bookings are the fastest way to fill shifts and evaluate candidates. Click Find A Temp (available on your dashboard, Temp Jobs tab, or Professionals tab), fill out the shift details, apply any advanced filters, select up to 6 candidates, and send requests.

Bookings can also double as working interviews — a low-risk way to evaluate real-world performance before committing to a permanent hire. If a candidate isn't the right fit, simply move on to the next professional.

See How do I send booking requests? and How do I Post a Temporary Job? for the full step-by-step, including what happens if invited candidates don't respond within 4 hours.

Why this works: Reduces hiring risk, maintains productivity during hiring, and leads to more confident long-term hires.

Job posts help attract additional candidates beyond your direct outreach. Create a temporary or permanent posting, review applications, and message candidates directly — or let Cloud Dentistry's AI generate a polished post from your role details.

See How to Post a Permanent Job Posting? and How do I Post a Temporary Job? for full details.

Best for: Expanding your candidate pool and comparing options.

Messaging lets you ask questions, request a resume, discuss interview times, propose a different rate, or invite a candidate to apply to a permanent posting. Keep bookings and communication on the platform rather than over text or verbal confirmation — for security and accountability, and because professionals' phone numbers only become visible once a booking is confirmed.

See How do I set up an interview? for the full flow, including tips on scheduling and using a working interview as your final evaluation step.

The most successful offices use search, booking, and job posts together:

Here's a quick walkthrough of the full Search → Book → Post → Interview → Hire workflow, so you can see exactly how a subscribed office uses these tools day to day.

With Cloud Dentistry, practices can:

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