Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses patient fears (2023)
Okay, so we talked about a lot of treatment plan options and how faculty can differ on essentially their opinion on it. But I’ve also had situations where faculty had a different diagnosis for a patient, and that was also very disheartening and a little bit frustrating for the patient. Because they don’t know what’s going on. They’re experiencing discomfort, and sometimes patients don’t even know where the pain’s coming from, or even remotely how to describe it, let alone… Yeah.