Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses patient-centered care, managing patient expectations, and race. (2023) [My experiences in working with underrepresented minority groups have been] enlightening in the sense that… Again, these are strangers when we first meet them. And once we start getting to know them, what I’ve noticed is I’m doing things different. We have certain […]
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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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Poem by Richard Garcia from The Persistence of Objects. Copyright © 2006 by Richard Garcia. Reprinted on The Poetry Foundation website by permission of BOA Editions, Ltd. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54057/my-fathers-false-teeth
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Patients/community members discuss race, racism, and trust in health care. (2023) . . . when I go to a Black doctor, I get better care. When I go to a Spanish doctor, I feel comfortable. When I go to a Caucasian, I don’t feel like I’m being heard. Why? I’m going to somebody that took
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Patients/community members discuss race and racism and social determinants of health. (2023) And also things like gentrification. We’re tearing down or sometimes there’s nothing there. And they’ll put something expensive like a Whole Foods or a Harris’s Teeter in its place instead of something that maybe somebody needs. Like, oh, I don’t know what it
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Patients/community members discuss race and racism and access to care. (2023) There are … I’m sorry, I’m not good with words. I wouldn’t say laws, but kind of certain policies that keep people of color on the bottom. It’s in my brain but I can’t get it out. Maybe I can help maybe back it
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Patients/community members discuss access to care and race and racism. (2023) Well, before Ronald Reagan, immunizations were free. Talking about the trucks going around. In the ’60s, I was examined in elementary school, dental. And then Reagan came along, budget cut. Now we know there are millionaires that you can cut, but it’s always low
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Patients/community members discuss pain, standards of care, and race. (2023) Speaker 1: So let me ask you something. You were talking about people having this idea that people of color tolerate it better pain or that we’ve been treated differently because we are not white. Do you think going to a dentist who looks like
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Patients/community members discuss pain and race. (2023) We do because they like we can take pain more worser [sic]than them. Say for instance, I’ll put it like this when I was in labor, they wait ’til the very last moment to want to give you an epidural because they feel you can take pain more
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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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