Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) Or could it be that doctors, dentists, they come and they work in a community or in a county where they don’t have knowledge of the people who are here. Could it be that doctors just come to these places without knowing that 90% of the people here can’t […]
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Patients/community members discuss treatment costs. (2023) We went to Dr. [xxx] and he’s a ripoff dentist. Let’s put it like that. He’ll put fillings in your mouth and then within a month’s time the filling done came out of your mouth. Then he wants you to come back in to refill and charge you for
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treatment costs and managing patient expectations. (2023) Cost. So I think that’s a really big issue. Discussing with patients. I feel like sometimes patients come in, especially in dental, as if it’s a grocery store and they can kind of pick what they want. I want an implant, but then they’ve
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient expectations. (2023) I think there’s also… Not really when it comes to faculty, but just patient expectations. I think a lot of patients hear about implants, and they come in and they say, “I want an implant.” And then really there’s so many factors about why that wouldn’t be best,
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Patients/community members discuss health literacy. (2023) As a teacher I can see with some of my students how their parents who sometimes can’t even afford daycare, how they put their child’s health, especially dental health, on the back line. I have a two-year-old little girl who has rotten teeth at two. And so I also
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Patients/community members discuss dental training/education and patient-provider interactions. (2023) I think it would be better if there are any programs at the schools, like the dental school, can inform students that there is better affordable dental care. . .You have to when you start talking about affordability, your insurance or what you have to go
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Patients/community members discuss race and racism. (2023) I definitely think it’s a possibility. I definitely feel there can be some maybe discriminatory appearances or even … It’s more an undertone kind of thing. Especially, as African-Americans, I think so. For sure. First of all, we were not really encouraged a lot like me, a lot
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Patients/community members discuss standards of care and bias. (2023) But even what you’re saying with the dental, I’m just thinking with my mom. I remember going to an appointment with her probably about six months ago and you’re right. Just by looking at us and watching us come in … It seems like we were
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