Best Dental Staffing Apps for Temp and Permanent Hires

Dental staffing apps replace the traditional agency phone call: you post the shift you need covered, and an app matches it to a professional who is looking for work that day.

They fall into three pricing models, and the model decides what the app ends up costing you.

• Per-shift marketplaces (GoTu, TempStars): no subscription — the office pays a fee only when a shift is actually worked.
• W-2 staffing services (Teero): the company employs the hygienists itself and staffs your shifts with its own W-2 workers.
• Subscription platforms (Cloud Dentistry, Princess Dental Staffing): a flat monthly plan covers unlimited temp requests and, on some plans, permanent job posts.

A job board is the fourth option, and a different thing: it lists permanent openings rather than staffing shifts.

DentistryHires sits in that category, which is why it appears in this comparison only for the permanent-hire half.

GoTu (the old TempMee web address, tempmee.com, now redirects to gotu.com) is a per-shift marketplace covering hygienists, assistants, front desk staff and associate dentists.

Offices pay per completed shift and never a subscription: 22.5% of the professional's shift rate on hygienist shifts, or a flat $60 per assistant shift, $70 per front desk shift and $300 per associate dentist shift.

Booking an employee (W-2) shift instead of an independent one adds 20% of the professional's pay for administration and employer payroll taxes.

Professionals use the app free, and GoTu says it connects 200,000+ dental professionals with 45,000+ offices across all 50 states (self-reported).

TempStars keeps the bill simple: a flat $73 per completed temp shift with no markup on the temp's hourly rate, nothing charged until the shift is worked, and no subscriptions, contracts, retainers or cancellation penalties.

It covers hygienists, assistants, admin/front desk, office managers and associate dentists, and professionals apply to its Job Board postings free.

Which costs less depends on the role: GoTu charges $60 for an assistant shift against TempStars' flat $73, while hygienist shifts are priced as 22.5% of the professional's rate rather than a flat fee.

Pick GoTu when you want per-role pricing and W-2 shifts as an option; pick TempStars when you want one predictable number per shift.

Teero works differently from the marketplaces: it staffs dental hygienists only, and every hygienist is a W-2 employee of Teero, with payroll, taxes, workers' compensation and liability handled by the company.

You request a shift or a permanent hire, and the office is billed after the shift is worked.

A temp shift costs the hygienist's hourly rate plus a 12% Teero service fee, with employer payroll costs passed through at roughly 8–12% of pay depending on the state — typically 20–24% above the hourly rate all-in.

If Teero cannot fill the shift, you pay nothing.

The permanent-hire price is the standout: $0 to hire a Teero hygienist outright, with no subscription, shift-posting fee or minimum for staffing.

Cancelling a booked shift is free 24 or more hours ahead; inside 24 hours, the full scheduled shift is paid to the hygienist.

Teero says it has placed W-2 hygienists in 2,710 cities across all 50 states (self-reported), and it also sells insurance posting and aging (2% of insurance collections, $800 monthly minimum) and insurance verification at $5 per comprehensive benefits breakdown, separately from staffing.

Teero is the fit when you want a hygienist employed and scheduled for you.

Hygienists are all it staffs, so assistant and front desk coverage stays with a marketplace or a subscription platform.

Cloud Dentistry lets you look before you pay: accounts are free for offices and professionals, and you can view professionals' availability, recent reviews, certifications and profiles before subscribing.

Booking requires a subscription plan with unlimited job postings; its offices page shows a $97-per-month Tier 1 plan on a 12-month term ($1,164 a year) plus $20 per completed booking, and notes that the price shown does not reflect the price in all locations.

It covers temp, part-time and permanent hiring across hygienists, assistants, front office staff and dentists, charges no buyout fee if you hire your temp full-time, and requires background checks for all professionals.

It says it is trusted by 500+ DSOs and that 6 out of 10 of its offices made a permanent hire after using a temp first (both self-reported).

Princess Dental Staffing is the flat-rate option: Temps Only at $139 a month for unlimited temp requests, or All Access at $259 for unlimited temp requests, job posts and resume downloads, with no additional fees and no hiring fee when you hire a candidate.

New accounts get a 14-day free trial that renews into the chosen plan, and plans can be changed or cancelled at any time without penalty.

Each additional office costs extra and can be added or removed at any time, and Princess says jobs are automatically distributed to hundreds of sites (self-reported).

The subscription shape pays off when temp coverage is constant.

If you only need a shift covered now and then, a per-shift marketplace keeps you from paying for idle months.

Every app above touches permanent hiring to a degree: Teero charges $0 to hire one of its hygienists permanently, TempStars posts permanent jobs free and charges $18 per candidate interview with no placement fee, Cloud Dentistry adds permanent hiring to the same subscription with no buyout fees, and Princess includes permanent job posts on the $259 All Access plan with no hiring fee.

DentistryHires is the option built only for that half — a job board, not a staffing agency.

It does not fill shifts or employ staff; it lists permanent openings across 15 dental roles.

A Standard listing costs $199 and a Featured listing $399 at launch pricing, each a one-time payment for a 30-day listing, with candidates applying on the practice's own application; DSOs and multi-office groups can subscribe at $899 a month for 10 always-live jobs or $1,749 for 25 Featured ones. Post a job or check what a listing costs.

The honest split: a staffing app for today's schedule, a job board for a permanent vacancy you plan to interview for yourself.

Ranked for a dental practice or DSO, not for a recruiter.

Published prices came first: every price and fee on this page is quoted from the company's own website, and where a price is not published we say so rather than estimate it.

The ranking then follows the pricing model, because the model decides what an app costs in practice — per-shift marketplaces first, then W-2 staffing, then subscriptions.

Numbers a company reports about itself — network size, DSO counts, hire rates — are labelled self-reported and do not move the ranking.

TempMee's old name is noted only because its domain still redirects to GoTu.

DentistryHires is one of the options and wrote this page.

Its facts come from the fact sheet, and it is ranked last deliberately: it is a job board, not a staffing agency, so it only competes for the permanent-hire half of this list.