Patients/community members discuss treatment costs and time. (2023) That’s not on society, that’s on correctional. They didn’t have a dental system at Greenville. They didn’t have a dentist at Greenville, and the list was a four-year wait just to get your teeth cleaned because the over crowdedness. So when you come out here and we’re […]
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs (2023) See that’s what I thought I had, right? So when I did that and I go to the dentist, I sat in the chair, I gave him all the information and everything, the man got in there and stopped and said that my Medicaid don’t cover the filling. So
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs and access to care. (2023) I just got out of federal prison, and they supposed to pay for all I did and stuff when I was in federal prison. The Covid was going on so we couldn’t go to the dentist, you feel, get our teeth cleaned and none of
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) One of the main pages that I remember, and this stuck with me the whole time, it was that I wasn’t going to be able to go back there with them. And it said in the paperwork that if the dentist saw the need for additional care, I was
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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 social determinants of health. (2023) I agree with the comment about tradition. I think that we look at our parents who came here as immigrants and who did not make medical care a priority. It was economics and finances that was a priority and medical care only became at least secondary or
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs and quality of patient care. (2023) I agree. Same. My mom’s coming from out of the country. So growing up we didn’t have access to certain stuff, but also to the cost. They give you a piece of paper before your services and say, “Hey, it’s $1000.” And then you
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs and trust. (2023) In terms of my dental health, my teeth are not the prettiest teeth, but they’re fine. They don’t hurt. There’s nothing loose, nothing like that. And my issue in this area, we’re overloaded with dentists, but which one do you go to? I’ve had mixed experiences, had
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Patients/community members discuss access to care. (2023) It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Because if they have a certain quota of how many people they can get in there, that’s what they do. If they accept your insurance, they got to call and verify that everything before they even let you come in there. And
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) Speaker 1: Then make sure they accept our insurance. That’s another problem too, right there. Certain dentists don’t accept the insurance that you have, and then what they do, I come to find out they do. They have you keep coming back. It’s what they was doing me, and
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