Patients/community members discuss access to care. (2023) I had it with my daughter. I called the dentist, it was like five o’clock maybe on a Saturday and she was having a really bad toothache. I don’t know if she ate something sweet. I don’t know if she did something, cracked a tooth. I don’t know. […]
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Patients/community members discuss standards of care. (2023) Definitely, start with recognizing who’s coming in the door. Try not to judge based on how they’re looking. Like I said, with my mom, the dentist didn’t pay attention to the fact, first of all, that she’s a little older. She’s in severe pain. Of course, she got
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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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Patients/community members discuss pain and race/racism. (2023) Yeah, they do because they think that I’m going to put it like this. They think because we of color we can tolerate pain more than Caucasian people can. And that’s a lie. I don’t know where they get that study from. That’s a lie. We all bleed
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss fear and social determinants of health. (2023) I do have a patient… Sorry, I didn’t know if anyone… I have a patient that is Caucasian, but similar situation where she went to the dentist, had a tooth extracted, had so much pain, didn’t go back. She’s still I think in her
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