Our Story
Built by a dentist who lived the empty chair.
TempStars started with one stressful 6:00am text message. Here is the story, straight from our founder.
Hello, and welcome.
I’m Dr. James Younger, a University of Toronto Dentistry graduate of 1999 and the founder and CEO of TempStars. I’ve spent most of my career in private practice, and my clinical work has also taken me into hospital dentistry, caring for patients with mental health needs.
The idea for TempStars arrived at 6:00am one morning in early 2015, when I woke up to a text message from one of our team hygienists: she couldn’t make it in. I immediately got that tightness in the stomach every practice owner knows. She had a full day of patients starting at 8:00am, nobody was in the office that early, and my mind raced. Do I rush in and start calling patients before they’re already on their way?
A way to connect dental offices directly with great hygienists the moment a gap appears, and take the stress out of filling it. And the same idea could give hygienists something the profession had never really offered them: a truly flexible professional lifestyle, picking up exactly the days and hours they want to work.
After nearly two years of dedication and hard work, TempStars was born, with a commitment to being the best way to consistently connect dental offices and dental professionals quickly and easily. Demand kept growing, and so did we: today TempStars connects offices with hygienists, assistants and admins for temping, and helps them hire permanently with our free Job Board.
Two purposes. One promise.
TempStars was created to serve both sides of the chair, and every decision we make comes back to that.
Take the stress out of staffing.
A way to find a great hygienist, assistant or admin quickly and easily, the moment you need one, so a gap in the schedule never becomes a lost day.
Work on your own terms.
A busy, flexible, empowered professional lifestyle: you choose the offices, pick the shifts and set your rate, with the freedom to build the career you want.
Everything we do and every decision we make is dedicated to this vision. We get it, and we care.
Still a dentist. Still in the chair.
“I built TempStars because I was a dentist staring at an empty hygiene chair, getting nowhere with agencies. Dental temping should just work. So we made it.”
Dr. James Younger, DDSCEO & Founder, practising dentist
From one empty chair to a dental community.
Be part of the story.
Whether you’re covering tomorrow’s schedule or building a career on your own terms, TempStars was built for you.
