USA from UK
Apr 22nd 2015, 4:38 pm
#16
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jun 2011
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,159
Re: USA from UK
I think our dental expert in these parts is petitefrancais.
Apr 22nd 2015, 5:40 pm
#17
Austin. TX.
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 5,930
Re: USA from UK
Hello!
If your wife wants to stay in dentistry she will have to re-qualify. I'd say absolutely no chance of an employer sponsoring her for a visa - sorry but there are plenty of really good nurses and practice managers here in the USA. Salary levels for Dental nurse or practice manager are not very high either.
Sales with a large multi-national like Kerr/Dentsply might be an option but unlikely to lead to visa sponsorship so that will only work if you manage to get a visa and then apply locally for a job.
Hygienist is relatively well-paid but she will have to qualify here (in Texas that means a minimum of 2.5 years + pre-requisites add another year) and she'd have to have a visa through your work to take this option.
Sorry not to be more hopeful on this end of things.
On the other hand.....Dubai? Plenty of excellent dental courses being run there and someone might appreciate a top notch professional like your wife to run the courses? Get her to friend on FB Paul Tipton/Anoop Mani/Tif Qureshi who all do stuff out there. nice guys who will help out if asked.
If your wife wants to stay in dentistry she will have to re-qualify. I'd say absolutely no chance of an employer sponsoring her for a visa - sorry but there are plenty of really good nurses and practice managers here in the USA. Salary levels for Dental nurse or practice manager are not very high either.
Sales with a large multi-national like Kerr/Dentsply might be an option but unlikely to lead to visa sponsorship so that will only work if you manage to get a visa and then apply locally for a job.
Hygienist is relatively well-paid but she will have to qualify here (in Texas that means a minimum of 2.5 years + pre-requisites add another year) and she'd have to have a visa through your work to take this option.
Sorry not to be more hopeful on this end of things.
On the other hand.....Dubai? Plenty of excellent dental courses being run there and someone might appreciate a top notch professional like your wife to run the courses? Get her to friend on FB Paul Tipton/Anoop Mani/Tif Qureshi who all do stuff out there. nice guys who will help out if asked.
Apr 22nd 2015, 5:48 pm
#18
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 8,106
Re: USA from UK
Just guessing, but I'd say that those lawyers fees would be more than a dental nurse assistant would earn in a year.
Apr 22nd 2015, 6:06 pm
#19
Austin. TX.
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 5,930
Re: USA from UK
yeah.....hygienist many years ago, then sales, then course organiser, then mum, then France (where they don't even have hygienists...
)
so did a stint dental nursing/Oral health educator with special needs kids (in French!!
). Now Texas where I thought about re-qualifying til I found out how old I'd be before I was working again.
My dentist teaches nationally here and he asked me if I'd be interested in working with him on his courses but tbh I'm quite enjoying some downtime, sorting out the kids, house, travelling around the USA and I've just booked a holiday in Australia.
)so did a stint dental nursing/Oral health educator with special needs kids (in French!!
). Now Texas where I thought about re-qualifying til I found out how old I'd be before I was working again. My dentist teaches nationally here and he asked me if I'd be interested in working with him on his courses but tbh I'm quite enjoying some downtime, sorting out the kids, house, travelling around the USA and I've just booked a holiday in Australia.
Apr 22nd 2015, 8:38 pm
#21
Austin. TX.
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 5,930
Re: USA from UK
Hahaha! At least I won't have spent 3 years "learning" stuff I already know 
Besides, I decided already that hygiene therapy wasn't what I wanted to spend my time doing.
Now a nice bit of well-paid consultancy work every now and then would be just the ticket....
Besides, I decided already that hygiene therapy wasn't what I wanted to spend my time doing.
Now a nice bit of well-paid consultancy work every now and then would be just the ticket....
