Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, access to care, and race. (2023) Yeah, I guess I’m a little more with […] on this one, is that, so, well, yeah, because a lot of our patients are financially disadvantaged that there is a […] level of care. But I’d say there’ve been more anomalies with people
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care and language barriers. (2023) I feel like we use family a lot. I know there’s a large controversy. I saw a [. . .] patient yesterday. She was eight. She spoke good English, but her mom only spoke Spanish. So when I need to get Mom to consent
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient expectations and patient education. (2023) I had a patient who spoke French. He has an old, an RPD [removable partial denture] was made here at the school, but it was more than seven or eight years ago. It was made here, but it’s broken. It’s not functional anymore, but
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care, time, and quality of patient care. (2023) I think it’s the flow of the clinics too. I had a patient the other day that needed a bunch of operative work, but they had been referred for [. . .]. So, in order for, if you do it by
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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
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient education, treatment costs, and time. (2023) What I feel is [the] problem is, sometimes, that when you have, in your pediatrics clinics, if you see a child and they’re in that sensitive age of mixed dentition. And for example, if they don’t have a [. . .], I mean, if
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education and barriers to care. (2023) The intrinsic motivation that you were talking about to go to do these things, I feel it just interplays into a lot of daily nuances that are really hard to police and change. If you want to do something in your heart, you need
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, dental training/education and access to care. (2023) I’m not sure, I think it’s so multifaceted and that’s why everybody’s talking about a different aspect of it. I mean, starting from a legislative component, we got some exposure to that. I mean, now they’re trying to put some laws in
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education and race. (2023) When you see patients, a lot of your interpersonal skills come from what you’ve seen in life, what you’ve experienced, and your development. So when that problem [. . .] The shift in dentistry needs to take place from a deeper. . .More people need to
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental education/training, treatment costs and access to care. (2023) I feel like at some level it does come down to individuals making decisions, to be internally motivated to serve populations that might not have as much of a financial return. I think that there’s… At least from what I understand, Medicaid
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