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 trust. (2023) Speaker 1: Anything. If I said describe your oral health, you might say? Speaker 2: Limited access, trust and lack of, extended periods of time between care. I guess due to that lack of trust, that’s what my experience has been.
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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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Patient/community members discuss fear, pain, and race. (2023) Speaker 1: You don’t have that fear when you’re going to that dentist? The fear is about the procedure and the pain? Speaker 2: I think so. Like I said, it goes back to that age group thing. I probably would not have that as much, but
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Patient/community members discuss race and racism. (2023) Speaker 1: Do you think it’ll be better if you went to a doctor who had the Black grandma and said, “Yes. That’s how they get. I get it.” Or even a white doctor who could say, “This is how they get and it’s fine. I don’t feel
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Patient/community members discuss standards of care. (2023) A little too straightforward. He didn’t seem to have a manner that was calming, reassuring. It was just rushed, so to speak. In comes one, now goes another.Right.Just like numbers?You’re just passing through.Exactly.Another human.It seems like he really didn’t take as much time with each patient, because every
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Patients/community members discuss patient fears. (2023) I kind of always had a fear of dentists. Out of all of my doctors, out of my primary doctor, whatever, I thought dentists were the worst. Just something seriously. We had one maybe when we first married 27 years ago. We had one that was just horrible. A
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Poem by Roald Dahl reprinted on the Poetry Foundation website from Rhyme Stew, published by Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 1989 by Roald Dahl. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, Ltd..https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89695/the-dentist-and-the-crocodile
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Patients/community members discuss standards of care. (2023) Definitely, start with recognizing who’s coming in the door. Try not to judge based on how they’re looking. Like I said, with my mom, the dentist didn’t pay attention to the fact, first of all, that she’s a little older. She’s in severe pain. Of course, she got
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Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss patient trust. (2023) Again, these are strangers when we first meet them. And once we start getting to know them, what I’ve noticed is I’m doing things different. We have certain protocols for certain things, but as soon as I know that patient’s coming immediately I know what they want or
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