Areas in WV for a Young Dentist? (Charleston, Huntington: real estate, home)

[WVUDentist09]

My wife and I are looking for a place to call home in WV. If you could start out anywhere and open a dental office in this state where would you live?
Best place to live?
Best place for a business?
Best of both?
Any areas in need of Dentists?

[tbailey1138]

Huntington could always use more dentists, especially if you have any interest in being a pediatric dentist as there are few of those around. This is a good place to live with lots to do and a lot of young professionals due to the medical field and Marshall. In most medical fields, Huntington also tends to pay as high or higher than any place in the state. There's a lot of revitalization going on here with downtown buildings and streetscapes and the addition of Pullman Square. If you aren't familiar with Huntington and would like some more info just let me know and I'll be happy to provide you with some other links. Here are a few for you though. Hope this helps.

Tim

http://www.city-data.com/city/Huntin...-Virginia.html
Pullman Square - Restaurants Shopping Entertainment
http://www.huntingtonmall.com/home/index.ch2 (largest mall in the state)
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
MySpace.com - Huntington Underground - 99 - Male - HUNTINGTON, West Virginia - www.myspace.com/huntingtonunderground (live music list from the next few months)
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[CTMountaineer]

Originally Posted by WVUDentist09

My wife and I are looking for a place to call home in WV. If you could start out anywhere and open a dental office in this state where would you live?
Best place to live?
Best place for a business?
Best of both?
Any areas in need of Dentists?

You might want to stick with North Central WV. It is the area showing the most economic promise, and since you are already familiar with Morgantown you know all that area has to offer. Clarksburg is a good possibility for you, and they have great Italian food there.

You might also check out Martinsburg-Sheperdstown. It is another growth area that is relatively prosperous.

[WVUPharm2007]

Originally Posted by CTMountaineer

You might want to stick with North Central WV. It is the area showing the most economic promise, and since you are already familiar with Morgantown you know all that area has to offer. Clarksburg is a good possibility for you, and they have great Italian food there.

You might also check out Martinsburg-Sheperdstown. It is another growth area that is relatively prosperous.

Morgantown kinda sucks for health professionals. Everyone wants to live here and its pretty much saturated. I have to work in Uniontown, in fact. I'd tell him to go to some other less desirable place in the state...which is pretty much everywhere else. I'd look at Parkersburg, personally. A lot of older dentists calling it quits recently, I'm told...

[CTMountaineer]

Originally Posted by WVUPharm2007

Morgantown kinda sucks for health professionals. Everyone wants to live here and its pretty much saturated. I have to work in Uniontown, in fact. I'd tell him to go to some other less desirable place in the state...which is pretty much everywhere else. I'd look at Parkersburg, personally. A lot of older dentists calling it quits recently, I'm told...

Makes sense. That's why I suggested Clarksburg.

When I was a student in Morgantown in the mid 70s, I was a "guinea pig" for a dental student. The guy redid my whole mouth with new fillings, a root canal and so forth. The only cost for me was for materials. It took an entire semester of my free time. He got an A for all the work. He opened up practice in Fairmont, but he's probably retired now. The work was so good that when I later went into the Army, the military dentist called in all his colleagues to look at it. They knew it had been done at a dental school as no commercial dentist would have taken the time to do the work that well... so they said. I still have some of those fillings after 45 years.

[snorpus]

Maybe Elkins, Buckhannon, Lewisburg.

[Hinton Bound]

You can pick anyplace in WV. You have a skill that is needed everywhere. Obviously, if you're a cosmetic dentist, the bigger population ares will be a better fir. For a GP Dentist, you can go where ever you desire.

If Ii were you, Ii'd go to Hinton.

[GottaHerdOn]

I 2nd Elkins/Buckhannon...

maybe Hurricane or Teays Valley?

[Sharedspirit]

I'm trying to remember what I heard about funding for rural medicine. It was last year some time when I heard there were funds available to recruit doctors/dentists to rural areas to practice. If I can find it again, I'll post it here.

How do you feel about the rural life? lol

We have a couple of dentists in the doddridge/ritchie area. We still have to go to clarksburg/parkersburg or morgantown for anything more than a simple filling or extraction.

[TheNida]

Downtown South Charleston would be an ideal place. To be honest, it used to be a ghost town but it would be my opinion that as the process of gentrification works it's way and a new mall is built that you would see more business expand. I hope to see you here!

Bret Nida
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