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Now hiring · Hygienist · Five Points, Raleigh

Give every patient the full hour, beside people who stay.

Sixty-minute adult cleanings. About eight patients a day. Four days a week, Fridays off.

$46 to $52 an hour · hourly, no production quotas

Sample figures for a sample practice.

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Denise, the lead hygienist, sits beside a laughing patient in a treatment room with a tall window and a rose garden photograph on the wall.
  • 60

    minutes for every adult cleaning. New patients get 90.

  • $0

    in production quotas. You're paid by the hour, every week.

  • 15

    days paid time off in year one, plus Christmas week closed, paid.Sample figure.

  • 4

    years since anyone on our clinical team left.

The hour

Eight patients a day. Not eight before lunch.

Most hygienists we meet were trained to do one kind of hygiene and paid to do another. Here the book is built for the first kind. Adult recall and perio maintenance get 60 minutes. Kids get 45. New patients get 90.

Joy, our office manager, builds the hygiene schedule herself and never double-books a hygiene chair to fill a hole. When a patient cancels, the hour is yours: charting, a sterilization hand, a call back to a nervous patient, or a coffee.

“I get to finish a sentence with my patients.”

Denise Holloway, RDH · lead hygienist, here since 2016
The Mill from the street at first light: a low red-brick building with tall windows under a big oak on Oakmere Avenue.

Our story

A florist's old building, a dentist who wanted the opposite of a chain.

Dr. Anna Castellow spent six years in two corporate offices in the Triangle. She liked the dentistry. She did not like 40-minute blocks, a hygiene department measured by what it converted, or a team that turned over so fast she stopped learning names.

In September 2016 she opened the Mill in a low red-brick building on Oakmere Avenue, a few minutes' walk from Five Points. She kept the brick, the tall windows and the oak floor, and made everything clinical brand new.

Ten years on: about 2,400 patients, eight people instead of four, whole families on one schedule. A grandmother at 8:00, her daughter at 9:00, the grandkids after school.

2016opened on Oakmere Avenue
2,400patients, about
8people, up from four

The team

The people you'd work with on Monday.

Eight of us. Here's who's in the building.

  • Denise Holloway in sage scrubs, reading glasses on her head.

    Denise Holloway, RDH

    Lead hygienist · since 2016

    Your mentor, for as long as you want one. Twenty-two years in, and she's cleaned some of the same kids' teeth from first visit to driver's license.

  • Tessa Brannon in sage scrubs, red hair pulled back.

    Tessa Brannon, RDH

    Hygienist · since 2022

    Came to us as a new grad. Runs kids' hygiene days. Bakes something every other Friday.

  • Dr. Anna Castellow in a white coat over sage scrubs.

    Dr. Anna Castellow, DDS

    Owner · since 2016

    Kneels to talk to kids at eye level before she picks up a mirror.

  • Dr. Rafael Duarte in a white coat, smiling.

    Dr. Rafael Duarte, DMD

    Associate dentist · since 2023

    The dentist nervous adults ask for by name. Coaches under-8 soccer on Saturdays.

  • Marcus Bell in sage scrubs, grinning.

    Marcus Bell

    Lead dental assistant · since 2018

    Calms a crying four-year-old with a glove balloon in under a minute.

  • Hannah Oduya in sage scrubs.

    Hannah Oduya

    Dental assistant · since 2024

    In hygiene school at night, with the practice paying part of it. Asks a question a day.

  • Joy Pittman in a cream cardigan, glasses on a chain.

    Joy Pittman

    Office manager · since day one

    Builds your schedule and defends the hygiene hour like it's hers.

  • Luis Carrera in a rust-coloured shirt.

    Luis Carrera

    Front desk · since 2021

    English or Spanish on the phone. Remembers the dog's name too.

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“Denise sat beside me my whole first month. Four years later I still bring her the strange charts.”

Tessa Brannon, RDH
Joy puts a record on in the waiting room before the first patient, morning light on the brick and the oak floor.

A day at the Mill

What Tuesday looks like.

  1. Light on the oak floor. Joy puts a record on, quietly. First patient.

  2. A grandmother, then her daughter at 9:30. Same family, same chair.

  3. Dr. Duarte comes to your room for an exam.

  4. Lunch. A full hour, one table, everyone at it.

  5. After school. A six-year-old picks the ceiling photo to stare at.

  6. Done. Or 6:00, on your rotating Tuesday.

  7. Friday

    Off.

Every treatment room has a window or skylight, and a framed photo of a Raleigh place on the ceiling above the chair: the Rose Garden, a greenway bridge, the Fair wheel at night.

The whole team laughing around one oak table at lunch, a loaf of something homemade in the middle.

12:30. One table, everybody at it.

The film · 1:02

A morning at the Mill.

See the building and the people before you ever walk in.

62 seconds. The team speaks in it, so sound on if you can.

The honest part

What might not suit you.

Better you hear it here than in month three.

  • We're small.Eight people. When someone's out, you might room your own patient or pick up a phone.
  • No ladder.There's no regional director job to climb toward. Growth here means wider work.
  • No production bonus.A top producer at a chain can out-earn you in a big month. We put that money in the hourly rate instead.
  • No sign-on bonus.We'd rather pay you well in year three than once in week one.
  • Kids are kids.Tears, wiggles, a parent standing in the room. If that wears you out, this is the wrong chair.
  • One later day.A Tuesday to 6:00, on rotation.
  • Parking is tight.An old building, a small lot, the street. On a busy Friday you'd circle the block.
  • You chart your own.No dedicated hygiene assistant. Marcus and Hannah help when they can.

The offer

The offer, in numbers.

Sample figures for a sample practice.

Pay
$46 to $52 an hour, by experience
Schedule
Mon to Thu, 7:30 to 4:30, about 34 hours. Fridays off.
Paid time off
15 days in year one, 20 by year four
Holidays
6 paid, plus Christmas week closed, paid
Health insurance
75 to 100% of your premium
Retirement
3% match
Continuing ed
$1,000 to $1,500 a year, plus 2 paid days
Loupes
Paid on hire, with a light, up to $1,500
Dental care
Free for you and your household
Scrubs
Provided
Sign-on bonus
None, on purpose

The BLS put the Raleigh-Cary median for dental hygienists at $47.50 an hour (May 2025). Our sample range starts near it and runs above. Source: CareerOneStop Salary Finder.

Someone in your corner.

Side-by-side days with Denise your first month, a half hour with her every other week your first year, and a monthly case lunch: one interesting chart, pizza, no blame. New hires start on a 90-day ramp with a lighter book.

What you need

The whole list.

An active North Carolina dental hygiene license. Current CPR.

New grads welcome. The 90-day ramp was built for you.

The third treatment room, empty and ready: a sage chair, a tall window full of leaves, the Fair wheel at night on the ceiling.

Apply

The third room is ready when you are.

No cover letter. Send us three things: where you work now, what you'd change about your schedule if you could, and the best time to call. A résumé if it's handy.

Joy reads every note herself.

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