Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses cost of treatment. (2023) On the other hand, I find it saddening from seeing the underrepresented community sometimes. Because sometimes I know what they need to do and what I think that they might prefer, but they don’t have the financial means to take upon those options. And I feel like […]
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Dental/dental hygiene trainee discusses challenges in providing care. (2023) I would say access to care, and oral health literacy, and health literacy [are the main challenges in providing care]. Because access to care with time and everything, but then also getting somewhere can be very difficult for people. For patients, especially. And then oral health
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs as a challenge in providing care. (2023) I was going to say socioeconomic levels [are the main challenges in providing care]. I think that’s just… Time and time again, it always comes down to money. Even if you have insurance versus not having insurance. Insurance doesn’t cover everything, and
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss bias, treatment costs, and social determinants of health. (2023) I had one person who, when interacting with a patient asked, “Oh, you don’t have $400, you don’t have X amount of money.” And in my mind that was like, well, to assume that someone would have any amount of money seems
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss social determinants of oral health, treatment costs and time. (2023) For my patients, I’ve allowed immigrants who were just recently moved to the US the past couple years, so they’re not only taking care of financials for themselves, but they’re also taking care of their families. They have multiple children that
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Patients/community members discuss providing access to oral health care. (2023) Oh, I feel that you have to give all people dental care, and proper care. And find out how to do it. Just like y’all had this fair today. Look how many people y’all got to volunteer for you. So if people need this service,
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs, quality of patient care, and trust. (2023) Nowhere, we can’t go nowhere. If you don’t have no money, you can’t go nowhere. Like I said, they got all these so-called sliding scale free clinics. All they want to do is pull your tooth, they’ll pull your tooth. But that’s it.
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) Our former president tried to do that [increase access to health care], but they’re still trying to interrupt it. So it’s getting really tough for poor people. I don’t know how to call it, but it’s hard. It’s very challenging. And not taking care of your teeth cause a
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs, bias, and quality of patient care. (2023) Well, when you don’t have money to pay for dental, you can’t get your teeth done correctly, and when you have a small amount of money, the dentist really don’t take care of your teeth. They do very minimal work, and it’s trash.
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Patients/community members discuss quality of patient care, treatment costs, and time. (2023) I used to go to the free clinics all the time, but they only going to do a limited amount of work and then they would try to branch off and deal with other dental places. They might take one or two people
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