Humanizing Hygiene with Bethany Montoya

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of humanizing hygiene in oral health care with guest Bethany Montoya.

What happens when we stop treating hygiene like a production role and start treating it like a human-centered profession? In this episode of The Chief Psycho Podcast, I sit down with Bethany Montoya, MBA, RDH—a practicing dental hygienist, educator, industry key opinion leader, and Editorial Director of DentistryIQ’s Clinical Insights—to talk about the realities of practicing across different systems and what it means to bring humanity back into oral health care. Bethany shares insights from ...

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Bonanno

Guest: Bethany Montoya

Topics covered

• hygiene
• oral health care
• human-centered profession
• dental hygiene
• healthcare systems

Keywords

• hygiene
• oral health
• dental hygienist
• human-centered care
• healthcare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DentistryIQ

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