Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss access to care, trust, health literacy, patient fears, bias, and social determinants of health. (2023) I also have a similar patient experience: several patients that have come from underserved backgrounds. And I guess one patient in particular I can think of, just because I haven’t seen oral health this badly in […]
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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 patient fears (2023) So, I’ve had a patient that came in, and he said that in the past when he had to get a tooth extracted… There was a dentist back in the ’60s who put his knee on his chest and was taking out a tooth. And so, he was
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss treating unhoused patients, barriers to care and trust. (2023) So I had this patient, this gentleman he is, or/and was homeless, but he is able to come to Access Carroll, which is a nonprofit organization in Carroll County. So I help him with a prophy [dental prophylaxis], but he has very
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Poem by Jaimee Kuperman. Reprinted on the Poetry Foundation website from her most recent book of poetry, You Look Nice Strange Man, ABZ Poetry Press, 2010. Reprinted by permission of Jaimee Kuperman and the publisher. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55282/the-new-dentist
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 dental training/education. (2023) If you go to the school, I mean, it’s better than going to a dental office. And why I say that is because even though they’re students, they have to be checked, and they’re being taught so they’re learning the right way. Not all the shortcuts. So they’re doing
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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, 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 standards of care and trust. (2023) So I think that the whole managed care system needs to change. You should be able to feel comfortable enough with a doctor to be able to ask questions or say, “I forgot this.” And they’ll to step back in and say, “Can I ask this
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