Newspaper article by David Heath, Mark Greenblat, and Aysha Bagchi. (March 19, 2020). Indianapolis Star. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2020/03/19/indiana-dentists-pressured-make-profit-former-insiders-say/2864933001/
Newspaper article by David Tuller. (April 22, 2019). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dental-care-is-tough-to-find-for-people-with-autism-other-developmental-disorders/2019/04/19/80238a38-54a5-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html
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Newspaper article by Mike Salmon. (September 1, 2019). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/dental-tourism–bargain-dentistry-and-a-vacation-to-boot/2019/08/30/4fd4a466-aef0-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html
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Newspaper article by Ken Hajek. (July 14, 2014). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/07/14/when-financial-pressures-affect-a-dentists-diagnosis/
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Children’s chapter book by Christina Wyman. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York, 2023. More and more kids in the U.S. wear braces. Not all of them, though, are like 7th grader Max Plink, who has to wear braces and orthodontic headgear nicknamed the jawbreaker, because of her severe malocclusion. Even with these treatments, she might have
Graphic novel for tweens by Raina Telgemeier. Scholastic/Graphix: New York, 2010. A fall on her way home leads to sixth grader Raina knocking out her two front teeth. This begins a tale of dental drama that lasts throughout middle and into high school. She endures pain and embarrassment as she goes through various types
Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient expectations. (2023) One nice thing, I guess, is teeth are teeth and mouths are mouths. If you’re getting overloaded by how different they [the patients] are than you, you can bring it back to square one and be like, “I can isolate this.” And then you can build out
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient care and trust. (2023) …three of our operative residents you’d spend time with every day were practicing Muslims, so things like that. So, then you establish this relationship with people who are born in a different country or speak a different language or have a different culture. And then,
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race, patient education, and managing patient expectations. (2023) But I had a patient, or a dad of a kid that I saw in PEDS, and we were asking why he didn’t want this for his daughter, or something, just a simple question so we could maybe educate him more or something.
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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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