Would you like to improve your skills in helping your patients with a dental phobia, fear or anxiety? Read tips that work from experienced clinicians and share your own tips.
Would you like to improve your skills in helping your patients with a dental phobia, fear or anxiety? Read tips that work from experienced clinicians and share your own tips.
Lincoln Hirst, a dentist with a special interest in treating nervous patients, shares his tips for communicating with apprehensive patients.
Someone who is a survivor of childhood abuse shares their tips for treating survivors of sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
This excellent book provides practical strategies to help children cope. Any of the principles can also be adapted for use with adults.
More tips
Tips for dealing with a sensitive gag reflex
Tips for dealing with choking fears
How to prevent fainting (blood-injury-injection phobia)
An example of a needle phobia desensitisation protocol
Loss of Control: This page, while aimed at patients, contains a range of tips which dentists can use to help their patients feel in control.
Explain-Ask-Show-Do by Fraser Hendrie BDS
The Art and Science of Distraction by Lloyd Jerome BDS
Acclimatising Child Patients (BDJ, 2013): A collection of tips by Murray Hawkins, many of which can also work well with some adult patients.
Dentistry Uncensored with Mike Gow: this interview covers tips for helping nervous patients, painless injections, a discussion of the Wand and similar devices, sedation, and hypnosis.
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Lower molar extraction, gagging, autism, fear of blood and emetophobia – how to ensure that blood stops immediately
Lincoln Hirst, a dentist with a special interest in treating nervous patients, shares his tips for communicating with apprehensive patients.
Someone who is a survivor of childhood abuse shares their tips for treating survivors of sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
This excellent book provides practical strategies to help children cope. Any of the principles can also be adapted for use with adults.
More tips
Tips for dealing with a sensitive gag reflex
Tips for dealing with choking fears
How to prevent fainting (blood-injury-injection phobia)
An example of a needle phobia desensitisation protocol
Loss of Control: This page, while aimed at patients, contains a range of tips which dentists can use to help their patients feel in control.
Explain-Ask-Show-Do by Fraser Hendrie BDS
The Art and Science of Distraction by Lloyd Jerome BDS
Acclimatising Child Patients (BDJ, 2013): A collection of tips by Murray Hawkins, many of which can also work well with some adult patients.
Dentistry Uncensored with Mike Gow: this interview covers tips for helping nervous patients, painless injections, a discussion of the Wand and similar devices, sedation, and hypnosis.
From our message boards
Lower molar extraction, gagging, autism, fear of blood and emetophobia – how to ensure that blood stops immediately