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Overcoming Dental Phobia

Friday, September 11th, 2015

352388_blogResearch suggests that dental phobia is one of the most common phobias in the UK and most people admit that they experience at least mild anxiety when faced with a trip to the dental surgery. In some cases, fear of the dentist is so extreme that people avoid dental visits for years on end, often putting up with severe pain and risking serious oral health problems. If you’re one of those people who dread the dentist, there is help out there and modern dentistry is a completely different proposition to dentistry in days gone by. Here are just some of the techniques and treatments that may help you to overcome dental phobia:

Speak to your dentist: dentists today have training in caring for patients who suffer from anxiety and dental phobia and if they are made aware of your situation, they can then adapt the way they work to make you feel more comfortable. It is always beneficial to take time to speak to your dentist and to have a look around the surgery and learn more about what dental treatment entails and get any queries or concerns off your chest before you have treatment.

Sedation: sedation is a technique, which is used frequently in medicine and dentistry to help patients to combat anxiety and ensure that they don’t feel any pain during a procedure. When you are sedated, you feel drowsy and completely relaxed; you won’t feel much while the procedure is carried out and you probably won’t remember anything afterwards.

Drill-free dentistry: drill-free dentistry is highly beneficial for those who have a specific fear of the dental drill, as well as those who feel very anxious about being in a dental surgery. Modern techniques, such as laser treatment, help to eliminate factors, which may cause anxiety to some patients, including drilling, unpleasant noises, injections and pain.

Hypnosis: some people who suffer from phobias find hypnosis very effective; however, it is not for everyone. Hypnosis is designed to train your brain to think differently and change your mind-set so that something you previously viewed as scary becomes completely harmless.

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Find Peace Of Mind And Face Your Fears With Our Soothing Leeds Dentists

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

3268322_blogGoing to the dentist can make most people feel a little anxious, but for some, the thought of sitting in the waiting room or lying in the dental chair is terrifying. We understand that having dental treatment can be a scary prospect and our dentists have training in caring for patients with dental fears.

We offer sedation for nervous patients, which helps to make you feel more relaxed and calm. Sedation is commonly used in medicine and dentistry and involves the use of sedative medication. Sedation is a less risky alternative to general anaesthetic; it doesn’t make you lose consciousness and you can still hear and communicate with your dentist. When you are sedated, you feel drowsy and completely calm and you won’t feel any pain.

After your dentist has finished treatment, they will give you medication to bring you around and it will take a while for the effects of the sedative to fade completely. Once you are ready to go home, we advise you to rest; we advise patients to ask a friend or relative to accompany them home, as it is not possible to drive after sedation.

One of the problems we face is that nervous patients have such profound fear that they put off going to the dentist for years on end and we want to help patients to conquer their fears, so that they feel confident and able to go to the dentist for regular appointments.  With sedation, the prospect of treatment is less daunting and we hope to make patients feel comfortable and relaxed during their time with us.

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Anxious in the seat in the City of Leeds

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

352388_blogNot everyone in the city of Leeds has empathy with going to see a dentist; for some it can be a bit of a torture and this is what is known as dental anxiety and if you get sweaty palms every time you sit in a dentist’s chair, it means that you have a little fear of getting treated. Dental anxiety is not a great problem in itself, but there is nothing worse than feeling uncomfortable when you are having treatment but modern dentistry has a lot of answers to this. Sit down and have a word with your dentist about any feelings that you may be having because between the pair of you, you can hammer out a plan in order to make your treatment better. There are sedation techniques that can be put into place to relax you and calm you down before you have any work done. You can have anaesthetics administered into your system to numb any pain, aromatic smells pumped into the surgery to relax you and all manner of chilling things. All you have to do is ask

 

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Banishing Your Dental Phobias In The City Of Leeds

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

A phobia of any nature, in any situation, in any walk of life can seriously damage your quality of life and if it is not confronted and cured, it can cause stagnation, make you introverted but more worryingly, breed other phobias inside you in the city of Leeds. Dental phobia is a prime example of this. If this stops you from getting to the dentists for even a basic check-up, it can lead to serious complications in your mouth that can threaten the health of your teeth and gums and in the long term, even the health of your body and that will only compound the issue even further.  It isn’t going to be a joyride, but this phobia needs to be confronted and fast, so you are going to have to get help in order to learn, understand and overcome what is at the core of your phobia. You can go to a psychiatrist for help, yet ironically, your dentist is also one of the options: dentists are well trained in understanding the psychology behind dental phobias so maybe just getting to the surgery for a chat, might just be the tonic because at least you have crossed the dental threshold. Then the more you learn about your treatments and modern dentistry, you can then decide what path you want to take in your treatments. There are also anaesthetics and sedations you can have to make the process painless- you decide, you call the shots. Nail this phobia and it will enable you to confront other problems and improve the way you live your life.

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