We hire the right person, then pay to grow them.
Most dental offices treat certifications as your problem and advancement as an accident. We treat both as the offer. Florida's rules let us hire for character and build the credentials on top — and we put real money behind it: sponsored radiography certification, funded expanded-functions and EFDA training, paid continuing education, and a genuine ownership path for dentists. Here's exactly how someone climbs at Restoro, and how we back every step.
The credential is the floor, not the ceiling.
Our founding bet is that the dentist is the one scarce resource, so everyone else runs the choreography that makes a 31-minute visit possible. That only works if the team is genuinely skilled — which means growing skill is not a perk we offer, it's the business we're in.
So we hire for the things you can't teach — reliability, warmth, steady hands, judgment — and we fund the things you can: certificates, courses, continuing education, and the license renewals that keep it all current. If you're the right person with a gap in your training, we'd rather close the gap than pass on you.
From dental assistant to EFDA in Florida.
Florida is unusually good for someone who wants to build a clinical career from scratch: the state doesn't require a license to begin dental assisting, and it defines a real ladder of expanded functions on top. Here's the path, and we fund each rung.
1. Start assisting — no license required
Florida lets you begin dental assisting with on-the-job training and no prior dental experience. You learn four-handed chairside, setup and sterilization, and the flow of the studio from day one. This is where we hire for character.
2. Earn your Dental Radiographer certification
To expose X-rays in Florida, you complete supervised on-the-job radiography training under a licensed dentist plus a board-approved dental radiography course, then apply for the state's Dental Radiographer certification. We sponsor the course and schedule the supervised hours, so you're taking DEXIS images as soon as you're eligible.
3. Complete a board-approved expanded-functions course
Florida's expanded functions — placing sealants, taking impressions, packing and removing retraction cord, and more — require formal, board-approved training. We pay for the course. Many Florida EFDA programs bundle radiography and expanded functions together, which streamlines the whole path.
4. Add restorative functions — the real leverage
With the required restorative training, a Florida expanded-functions assistant may place, pack and contour composite and amalgam restorations and fit stainless-steel crowns after the dentist preps the tooth, under her direct supervision. This is the highest-leverage clinical role short of the dentist — and it's the one our whole model runs on.
Dental radiography certification in Florida.
Florida doesn't license dental assistants in general, but it does require a specific certification to expose radiographs — because a certified operator behind the X-ray is a patient-safety rule, and our imaging flow (DEXIS wall-mounted iPad choreography) is built around it.
The path has two parts that run together: at least three months of continuous, supervised on-the-job training positioning and exposing images under a Florida-licensed dentist, and a Florida Board of Dentistry–approved dental radiography course completed within twelve months of that training. Finish both, apply, and you hold the Dental Radiographer certification. We cover the course and organize the supervised hours in-house — it's one of the first things we invest in for a new assistant.
Growth for hygienists and dentists, too.
The ladder isn't only for assistants. Every clinical role at Restoro has room to climb, and we fund the moves.
Hygienists — earn a local-anesthesia certificate
Florida now allows dental hygienists to administer local anesthesia under the dentist's direct supervision after a board-approved course (30 hours didactic, 30 clinical, plus BLS). We sponsor it, and it widens what you own in the chair. From there: lead hygienist, ownership of the whitening and cosmetic program, and helping open the next clinics.
Assistants and EFDAs — into leadership
Assistant to radiography-certified to EFDA to lead assistant or treatment coordinator. Leads run the clinical floor and train new hires; coordinators own the patient-and-numbers side — plans in plain words, prices from the published schedule, membership math, in English or Russian.
Dentists — associate to partner
Clinic one is the founder's Florida PLLC, which state law keeps dentist-owned. As we open clinic two, an MSO holds the brand, tech, equipment, and leases — and becomes the vehicle for associate and staff equity. A founding associate who helps build the model is exactly who that ownership path is designed for.
What 'we invest in you' actually means.
Language about growth is cheap, so here's the concrete version of ours. The specifics below carry placeholders until final numbers are confirmed, but the commitments are real.
We pay for certifications
Dental Radiographer certification, expanded-functions and EFDA courses, and hygienist local-anesthesia certification are sponsored — the courses that move you up a rung are on us, and each rung comes with a raise.
We fund continuing education
The CE that keeps your credential current and deepens your scope is supported — because a team that keeps growing is exactly how the model stays good.
We cover license renewals
Keeping your Florida license or certification active is our cost to carry, not a fee you eat out of pocket.
We pay above market — and share the upside
Above-market pay with no production quotas, plus a cash profit-share that ties your income to how the studio does. As we grow from one clinic to three, the people who built it are first in line to lead and, for dentists, to own a piece.
Questions, answered plainly
Do I need a certification to start working here?
For dental assisting, no — Florida lets you begin with on-the-job training and no prior dental experience, and we sponsor the radiography certification and expanded-functions courses after you join. Hygienists and dentists need their Florida license to practice; for them, growth means added certificates, scope, and — for dentists — ownership, all of which we support.
How long does it take to become an EFDA in Florida?
It depends on your starting point and the courses' schedules, but the sequence is clear: begin assisting, complete supervised radiography training (a minimum of three months) plus a board-approved course, then a board-approved expanded-functions course, and restorative training on top. We schedule and fund the steps so you're not navigating it alone.
Will you really pay for my courses and certifications?
Yes — that's the core of how we grow the team. Radiography certification, expanded-functions and EFDA training, and hygienist local-anesthesia certification are sponsored, and each step comes with a raise. Final budgets are confirmed at hiring.
What's the path from associate dentist to ownership?
Clinic one is the founder's Florida PLLC (Florida law keeps practices dentist-owned). As we open clinic two, an MSO holds the brand, technology, and equipment and becomes the vehicle for associate and staff equity. A founding associate is exactly who that path is built for.
Is knowing Russian required to grow here?
No, but it's genuinely valued at every level. A large part of who Restoro serves is Jacksonville's Russian-speaking community, so bilingual team members — Russian or Spanish — make care land better and are an asset we weigh in hiring and advancement.
When is the team being hired, and where?
We're hiring the founding team now, ahead of doors opening in September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor of southeast Jacksonville. Getting in early is itself part of the growth story — founding staff are first in line to lead as the studio grows from one clinic to three.