YOUR ENGLISH IS fINE.
YOUR CAAPID PREP ISN'T.
The interview isn't testing your English. It's testing if you can think under pressure.
I've seen a lot in my dental career, and some things happen over and over. Dentists spend months prepping grammar, then walk into the interview and say they freeze. A native English speaker asks them to repeat themselves — not because of pronunciation, but because the answer didn't land. Or a dentist finishes a case presentation and the patient walks out to the front desk asking questions the doctor should've answered chair side. Why? Because they prepped for the wrong thing.
I'm Abraham Castellanos, RDH. Thirteen years chairside in American dental offices, and one thing keeps proving itself: you can be a top clinician — hands, diagnosis, everything — but if the communication isn't there, the work doesn't land. Not with the patient, not with your team, not with the doctor next to you.
I coach foreign-trained dentists through the exact questions that show up in the CAAPID interview, scored on the six things that actually get measured.
Start with the assessment. You get a baseline and one real tip you can use the moment you finish. With your results, you'll find a link to my Calendly — that's where you book your free Zoom audit with me.