Children’s book by Nicole A. Mansfield. Capstone: North Mankato, MN, 2023. Part of the “My Teeth” series. Provides an overview of the process of losing teeth, including tips on what to do before and after losing one. Includes a glossary and further resources, such as other books, websites, and videos. Also has a suggested
Children’s book by Selby B. Beeler and illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1998. Loosing a tooth, especially for the first time, can be a scary and uncertain event. In this playful picture book, Beeler shares traditions from around the world of what kids do when they loose a tooth. Karas’
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, patient fears, and time. (2023) I see it in our faculty as well where I understand things need to get done, but sometimes they’ll be like, “Hey, it’s 9:15. Why haven’t you started?” And you’re like, “Because my patient is worried about being able to pay for treatment. They’re
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses patient fears (2023) Okay, so we talked about a lot of treatment plan options and how faculty can differ on essentially their opinion on it. But I’ve also had situations where faculty had a different diagnosis for a patient, and that was also very disheartening and a little bit frustrating for
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Poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Poetry, February 2017 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92043/he-has-an-oral-fixation
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Poem by Deirdre O’Connor reprinted on The Poetry Foundation website. “At the Dentist’s,” published under the title “The Yoke,” from The Cupped Field, (Able Muse Press, 2019). Poem reprinted by permission of Deirdre O’Connor and the publisher. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152823/at-the-dentists
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Patients/community members discuss pain. (2023) As a matter of fact, the last dentist I had, her name is Dr. [xxx], and she’s the one who pulled my tooth, and I didn’t feel no pain. And she was a white woman and she’s a sharp white woman. And I’m thinking to myself, I know she going
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Patient/community members discuss fear, pain, and race. (2023) Speaker 1: You don’t have that fear when you’re going to that dentist? The fear is about the procedure and the pain? Speaker 2: I think so. Like I said, it goes back to that age group thing. I probably would not have that as much, but
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Patients/community members discuss patient fears. (2023) I kind of always had a fear of dentists. Out of all of my doctors, out of my primary doctor, whatever, I thought dentists were the worst. Just something seriously. We had one maybe when we first married 27 years ago. We had one that was just horrible. A
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Patients/community members discuss patient fears. (2023) Where with me, he treats me a little more like, “Ms. [xxx] …” Because like I said, I do have a little fear of dentists and I needed some major deep cleaning done. I was supposed to schedule that three months ago and I keep putting it off because
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