Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, access to care, and race. (2023) Yeah, I guess I’m a little more with […] on this one, is that, so, well, yeah, because a lot of our patients are financially disadvantaged that there is a […] level of care. But I’d say there’ve been more anomalies with people […]
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental training/education, treatment costs, and access to care. (2023) A lot of people, they come to the dental school because they have to because we’re the only place that’ll take Medicaid anywhere around them. And they maybe don’t want to be at a dental school or want to be seen by
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient education, treatment costs, and time. (2023) What I feel is [the] problem is, sometimes, that when you have, in your pediatrics clinics, if you see a child and they’re in that sensitive age of mixed dentition. And for example, if they don’t have a [. . .], I mean, if
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, dental training/education and access to care. (2023) I’m not sure, I think it’s so multifaceted and that’s why everybody’s talking about a different aspect of it. I mean, starting from a legislative component, we got some exposure to that. I mean, now they’re trying to put some laws in
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss dental education/training, treatment costs and access to care. (2023) I feel like at some level it does come down to individuals making decisions, to be internally motivated to serve populations that might not have as much of a financial return. I think that there’s… At least from what I understand, Medicaid
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss race, diversity, and treatment costs. (2023) I was going to say, I think being downtown, I do think we get [a] pretty diverse population. I am from Indiana but I’m from a little farther North, so I’m not as familiar necessarily with all of them, but I would say generally the
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs. (2023) And just, I have an intern for the program, and he’s a dental assistant and he says, “Yeah, sometimes patients come in and it’s a $30 extraction, and they simply don’t have $30.” So, a lot of the time the dentist will write this off, but again, he’s
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs, access to care, trust, and managing patient expectations. (2023) Our initial appointment with our evaluation has a certain cost to it, and typically for insurance purposes, it’s only covered once every lifetime. But the difference is, the school prices are unmatched, compared to private practices. And so what could
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses race and racism (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 late thirties, pretty
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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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