Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race, bias, and trust. (2023) I had an African-American patient who said, “I’ve been treated different ways, different places, and a lot of people think that Black people don’t need as much anesthetic.” And so she said that, and she almost got a little bit upset when she was telling me […]
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss social determinants of health, trust, and bias. (2023) One of my first patients I ever worked with, I was a very new clinician. He is HIV positive, he’s disabled, so he’s not working. He had a lot of background characteristics that were not things that I had dealt with before, not
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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 race, bias, pain, and patient education. (2023) I had a patient yesterday actually who, she was in her 30s, and had never been to the dentist, and she just moved here from Africa. And she, even [when] explaining what I would assume were the more lay-person terminology, I had to break
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses patient fears (2023) So, I’ve had a patient that came in, and he said that in the past when he had to get a tooth extracted… There was a dentist back in the ’60s who put his knee on his chest and was taking out a tooth. And so, he was
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses dental training/education (2023) Yes. Yeah, I was also going to say we have faculty that are… A lot of the faculty went to Maryland. It went back, so they saw the same population. So, I believe a lot of them get it. But we also get a lot of faculty who
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race and racism (2023) I think we need to be open to having conversations about [race]. When someone says something insensitive, then you should call them out because maybe they don’t realize and somebody needs to tell them. And if we don’t tell them, then they’re never going to change their
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss bias, patient-provider interactions, and power dynamics. (2023) I had a patient and she just had a complaint and one of the faculty members looked at her and said, “this is why I quit dentistry.” He retired, he’s working at the school. And she just got so frustrated. She’s like, “I’m just
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss bias, treatment costs, and social determinants of health. (2023) I had one person who, when interacting with a patient asked, “Oh, you don’t have $400, you don’t have X amount of money.” And in my mind that was like, well, to assume that someone would have any amount of money seems
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs, bias, and quality of patient care. (2023) Well, when you don’t have money to pay for dental, you can’t get your teeth done correctly, and when you have a small amount of money, the dentist really don’t take care of your teeth. They do very minimal work, and it’s trash.
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