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 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 trainee discusses dental training/education. (2023) In my experience, specifically with patients that I’ve had trouble… I guess trying to determine if they should get one procedure or another specifically based on the cost. Talking with different faculty, I can kind of see how they would prioritize it specifically for… If they have the
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses cost of treatment. (2023) On the other hand, I find it saddening from seeing the underrepresented community sometimes. Because sometimes I know what they need to do and what I think that they might prefer, but they don’t have the financial means to take upon those options. And I feel like
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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 oral health outreach to underserved populations. (2023) So last week I actually was at Harford County, which is a different county where a lot of underserved populations reside. And there’s one dental hygienist who goes around those Title I schools and provide dental sealants for the students. And I thought it
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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 managing patient expectations, time, and university-based dental clinics. (2023) So at the school we have certain set hours of when we can see patients and that’s really it. And it’s usually a two and a half hour, three hour window. But when we can see patients, so one of my patients
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient expectations. (2023) I think there’s also… Not really when it comes to faculty, but just patient expectations. I think a lot of patients hear about implants, and they come in and they say, “I want an implant.” And then really there’s so many factors about why that wouldn’t be best,
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Patients/community members discuss dental training/education and patient-provider interactions. (2023) I think it would be better if there are any programs at the schools, like the dental school, can inform students that there is better affordable dental care. . .You have to when you start talking about affordability, your insurance or what you have to go
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