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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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care, trust, health literacy, patient fears, bias, and social determinants of health. (2023) I also have a similar patient experience: several patients that have come from underserved backgrounds. And I guess one patient in particular I can think of, just because I haven’t seen oral health this badly in
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, access to care, trust, and managing patient expectations. (2023) Our initial appointment with our evaluation has a certain cost to it, and typically for insurance purposes, it’s only covered once every lifetime. But the difference is, the school prices are unmatched, compared to private practices. And so what could
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education (2023) Generally, we get assigned by our Clinic Directors. There’s clinic groups and they are all led by a Clinic Director. And they’ll assign you, they have a pool of patients and they assign based on needs, the student needs. We also have an influx of patients from clinics
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education (2023) So, here at the dental school we have two patients a day. So our morning patient and our afternoon patient. And we have limited numbers of chairs that we can seat, and depending on staffing, that can even be reduced even more. And I’m a third year, so
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses access to care (2023) Something that does help us at our school with access and minority groups is we do have language lines. We have these iPads that help us translate. So, we have American Sign Language, Spanish… There’s a list of 50 languages on there, and an interpreter comes up.
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient fears (2023) I had a patient that I started working with about a year and a half ago, and he was also a Caucasian male. But he had some clear substance abuse issues and everything. And so, he would come in and obviously have had used right before coming in.
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses challenges in providing care. (2023) I would say access to care, and oral health literacy, and health literacy [are the main challenges in providing care]. Because access to care with time and everything, but then also getting somewhere can be very difficult for people. For patients, especially. And then oral health
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treating unhoused patients, barriers to care and trust. (2023) So I had this patient, this gentleman he is, or/and was homeless, but he is able to come to Access Carroll, which is a nonprofit organization in Carroll County. So I help him with a prophy [dental prophylaxis], but he has very
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Patients/community members discuss providing access to oral health care. (2023) Oh, I feel that you have to give all people dental care, and proper care. And find out how to do it. Just like y’all had this fair today. Look how many people y’all got to volunteer for you. So if people need this service,
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