Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race and racism. (2023) I think, to white patients, they both talked about mental health affecting their oral healthcare more. I don’t know. And I know that’s a big cultural thing. Especially in Latina cultures, mental health is not something that’s discussed. And I can’t speak to all cultures, obviously. I […]
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient expectations. (2023) One nice thing, I guess, is teeth are teeth and mouths are mouths. If you’re getting overloaded by how different they [the patients] are than you, you can bring it back to square one and be like, “I can isolate this.” And then you can build out
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss training. (2023) I think the curiosity is important because you learn more about them [the patients], and maybe, for example, she [another trainee] mentioned someone who’s fasting for Ramadan and everything. You would want to know how their life is, what they’re doing, even if you don’t really know much. I
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient care and trust. (2023) …three of our operative residents you’d spend time with every day were practicing Muslims, so things like that. So, then you establish this relationship with people who are born in a different country or speak a different language or have a different culture. And then,
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss their dental education/training. (2023) I like to ask my classmates. We assist each other a lot of times. And if I’m unsure about how to go about something, I’ll ask one of my classmates or a faculty. Or if I’m unsure about how the appointment went or think that something could
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race, patient education, and managing patient expectations. (2023) But I had a patient, or a dad of a kid that I saw in PEDS, and we were asking why he didn’t want this for his daughter, or something, just a simple question so we could maybe educate him more or something.
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care. (2023) I feel like it’s rare that we truly ask what our patients’ barriers are. It’s easy for them to just say, “Oh, I can’t make it to that many appointments,” but it’s rare that I follow up and say, like, “Why? Is it because of work? Is
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race and racism and their dental training/education. (2023) I mean, even when I was in undergrad, I was really involved in the DEI office, and I was involved in a lot of multicultural anti-racism work and advocacy. And we did a lot of just programming, like lunch sessions or afterschool… I
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss approaches to delivering patient care. (2023) Unfortunately, if we want to speak in the real world, there are dentists that are like that… And no one is really controlling them because they can, seemingly, do everything by the book, everything that goes into the computer, what they show the patient. Everything
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discus bias and dental training/education. (2023) I feel like refreshers over time, every once in a while, a refresher course of, like, “Hey, remind yourself to try and get out of your mental bias.” I feel like that’s something throughout your whole career that you just have to keep reminding yourself. I
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