This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with The Latina RDH, Amber Lovatos, RDH about the top 5 things to know about the latin community.
Quotes
“Brazilians are only latino because they don’t speak spanish.”
“Latino refers to a group of people, latina refers to a woman or group of women.”
“If you add 1 man to a group of 100 women you are now latino not latina.”
“LatinX is neither male or female.”
“Don’t call us Spanish, we are not from Spain.”
“There are 20 different latin countries, we are not all Mexican.”
“We all have a very high sugar diet, and we will likely need some nutritional education and counseling.”
“I didn’t know what dental floss was until I was an adult.”
Links
Communicate with Spanish-speaking patients in your dental office
Smiles Por Vida: A Spanglish Children’s Dental Book (Spanish Edition)
More Your Dental Top 5 Episodes: https://ataleoftwohygienists.com/dentaltop5/
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