Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss social determinants of oral health, treatment costs and time. (2023)
For my patients, I’ve allowed immigrants who were just recently moved to the US the past couple years, so they’re not only taking care of financials for themselves, but they’re also taking care of their families. They have multiple children that they have to take care of, so it’s hard for them to come in and when they come in, they can only pay for a certain amount of procedures. So maybe you’ll see them for a couple of fillings or maybe you’ll see them for a cleaning and then they can’t pay off the next procedure whatsoever, even with the reduced fees just because they have. . .And also with them their work changes every week so they can’t schedule ahead of time.