You now know what the first set of numbers on a plant tag mean â but what does the second set refer to? This covers the plantâs heat zones, or how hot it gets in summer. The heat zone map is based on high temperatures and is divided into 12 zones. The lower the number, the cooler it is in summer. For example, Portland, OR, is in Heat Zone 4, meaning that it has between 15 and 30 days with temperatures above 86 degrees F every year.
-I feel a dentist should be an associate somewhere before taking the leap to ownership to develop the business feel and hand-speed. If you are going to a private practice, you'll probably make around 30% of your production if not on salary. In my area, salaried general dentist associates make around $125,000/year.
In some high-priced cities, dentists make a lot of money with non-medical, cosmetic procedures from teeth whitening to botox. And according to the American Dental Association, the average dental specialist earned $283,900 in 2013.* Dentists in some places are so well compensated that they earn more than the average doctor. According to a 2012 report in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the average hourly wage of a dentist in America is $69.60 vs. $67.30 for a physician. As recently as 1996, dentists were making less than doctors.