Examining the Impact of Dental Hygienists' Professional Appearance: Patients' and dental student providers' perspectives.

Conclusions: Hairstyle, in both male and female dental hygienists, was viewed as a physical characteristic influencing perceptions of professionalism among patients and dental students. Overall, male clinicians were evaluated more negatively than females. Gender was not shown to affect the study participants' perceptions of professionalism. PMID: 31409722 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Dental Hygiene - Category: Dentistry Tags: J Dent Hyg Source Type: research