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 treatment costs, access to care, and managing patient expectations. (2023) One thing that stuck with me was the people who work on insurance and payroll here in the school. Oh, there are a lot of people [that] specifically work here in the school just to dig deep into insurances, so meaning…
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care, dental training/education, treatment costs, and time. (2023) I think they do a decent job. A few of us were in the Dental Public Health [DPH] distinction track. I think that was a great opportunity because, I mean, we watched so many videos and have so many discussions about
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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 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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