15 Learn Dental Spanish

Un Cuento de Dos Higienistas

This episode is with Un Cuento De Dos Higienistas host Amber Lovatos. In this episode Amber provides Spanish rules for the listener as well as some Spanish phrases and resources.

Dental Resources:

• 1-minute dental Spanish reels @thelatinardh
• Dentalcare.com→ Patient Education→ Patient Materials
• Dentalcare.com→ Patient Education→ Conversational Spanish

Masculine & Feminine Rules

• Ends in a
• • Exceptions: -Nouns ending in -a, -ción,-sión, -ía, -za, -itis, or -dad are usually feminine:
• Ends in o
• • Exceptions: Nouns ending in -o, an accented vowel, -or, or -aje are usually masculine. Nouns of Greek origin ending in -a, often -ma, are nearly always masculine.

“The” in Spanish

• Feminie
• • Singular= La (lah)
  • Plural= Las (lahs)
• Masculine
• • Singular= El (ehl)
  • Plural= Los (lohs)
• Plural for group of people
• • Los (lohs)

When to use “the”

• Use when "the" is used in English
• Use when "the" is NOT used BUT we are talking in general when talking about people, animals and things in a general way
• • “I like teeth”= “Me gustan los dientes”
  • “La gingivitis es una enfermedad”= “Gingivitis is a disease that..”
  • “Tienes gingivitis”= “You have gingivitis.”

When talking about parts of the body-you do not use “my”, “your”, “his” and so on as you would in English.

• Do you have a broken tooth?
• ¿Tienes un diente quebrado ?
• • Tienes (teh-nehs) = Have
  • Un (oon) = a
  • Diente (dyehn-teh)=Tooth
  • Quebrado (keh-brah-doh)= Broken

How to say “you” in Spanish

• Tu (tuh) & vos (bohs) is an informal way of saying “you”
• Usted (oos-tehd) is formal way of saying “you”
• Su (soo) is a formal way of saying “your”

Abre grande

• Mexican slang
• Open= Abre (ah-breh)
• Completely= Completamente (kohm-pleh-tah-mehn-teh)
• Large/Big= Grande (grahn-deh)

Swallow in Spanish

• “Traga” is an aggressive term and should be avoided
• Instead use, “Pass your saliva, please.” = “Pase su saliva, porfavor.”
• • Open= abre

Peridontist in Spanish

• Periodoncista (peh-ryoh-dohn-sys-tah)
• Periodoncia (peh-ryoh-dohn-syah)

Dental Hygiene Words in Spanish

• Dental cleaning= limpieza (leem-pyeh-sa) dental (dehn-tuhl)
• Dental Prophylaxis= profilaxis (proh-fee-lahk-see) dental (dehn-tuhl)
• SRP= raspado (rrahs-pah-doh) y (ee) alisado (ah-lee-sah-doh) radicular
• Deep cleaning= limpieza (leem-pyeh-sah) profunda (proh-foon-doh)

Educate your patient on the word you are using

Dental team names

• Dental hygienists= higienista dental (dehn-tuhl)
• Dental assistant= asistente (ah-sees-tehn-teh) dental (dehn-tuhl)
• Dentista= dentista (dehn-tees-tah) odontologo/a (oh-dohn-toh-loh-goh) (oh-dohn-toh-loh-gah)

Solo poquito Espanol = Only little bit Spanish

• Solo (soh-loh)= only
• Poquito (poh-kee-toh)= little bit
• Español (ehs-pah-nyohl)= Spanish

Lento por favor = Slower please

• Lento (lehn-toh)= slow
• Por favor (pohr fah-bohr)= please

Quotes:

“It is okay to make mistakes”

“Your patients will appreciate the attempt”

“There are different Spanish dialects”

“Patient cannot

“Try. Attempt the language. Practice with your patients”

@thelatinardh

Amber Lovatos, RDH, BSDH

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