Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, treatment costs, and access to care. (2023)
A lot of people, they come to the dental school because they have to because we’re the only place that’ll take Medicaid anywhere around them. And they maybe don’t want to be at a dental school or want to be seen by students, but that’s their only option versus you’re coming in to school because you want to be seen by students, or you don’t mind. You want the discount. But they’d have to. There’s nowhere else they can go. That’s unfortunate sometimes.