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Welcome to the forums.
You do have interviews, but it's not clear how these issues have been handled whenever you have been shadowing or working with patients in a dental setting.
Have you conversed with admissions teams about your need to wear fingerless gloves? You may need to clear that through a different office that looks at accommodations. Again, how you dealt with this when you were working in a dental clinic setting will be insightful because you will need to wear protection working with patients. You can be committed, but you need the institution to honor the accommodation.
Current times have been more accepting of tattoos though individual schools and professionals may differ. A dentist's recommendation letter could help but no guarantees.
FWIW
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You do have interviews, but it's not clear how these issues have been handled whenever you have been shadowing or working with patients in a dental setting.
Have you conversed with admissions teams about your need to wear fingerless gloves? You may need to clear that through a different office that looks at accommodations. Again, how you dealt with this when you were working in a dental clinic setting will be insightful because you will need to wear protection working with patients. You can be committed, but you need the institution to honor the accommodation.
Current times have been more accepting of tattoos though individual schools and professionals may differ. A dentist's recommendation letter could help but no guarantees.
FWIW
Tattoos, piercings: How dental professionals can decide what is tasteful art among colleagues
By Jamie Collins, RDH, CDAAre tattoos and piercings considered an art, or are considered stigma in the dental setting? The opinions about visible tattoos in a professional dental...
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Welcome to the forums.
You do have interviews, but it's not clear how these issues have been handled whenever you have been shadowing or working with patients in a dental setting.
Have you conversed with admissions teams about your need to wear fingerless gloves? You may need to clear that through a different office that looks at accommodations. Again, how you dealt with this when you were working in a dental clinic setting will be insightful because you will need to wear protection working with patients. You can be committed, but you need the institution to honor the accommodation.
Current times have been more accepting of tattoos though individual schools and professionals may differ. A dentist's recommendation letter could help but no guarantees.
FWIW
Tattoos, piercings: How dental professionals can decide what is tasteful art among colleagues
By Jamie Collins, RDH, CDAAre tattoos and piercings considered an art, or are considered stigma in the dental setting? The opinions about visible tattoos in a professional dental...
Hello, thank you for reaching out.
I have not directly spoken to admissions office about accommodations because I feared that I would not have received interviews to begin with. However, I will make sure to explain my situation in person.
I am fortunate in that my dentist wrote one of my letters, so I guess all I can really do is own it at this point, as there's not much else I can do since I did get these tattoos when I was younger.