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You Can End Your Dental Phobia Nightmare Right Here In Leeds

Saturday, March 29th, 2014

4361359_blogDental phobia is a profound fear of going to the dentist or having dental treatment, which may prevent patients from seeing their dentist on a regular basis. Phobias make people feel very nervous, anxious and uneasy and sometimes, patients feel so scared that they avoid having dental treatment for prolonged periods of time. We recommend regular check-ups for all our patients to reduce the risk of oral diseases and we can help nervous patients with a range of techniques and treatments.

We understand that some people feel very anxious when they come to the surgery or even think about seeing a dentist and we have experience in treating patients with dental phobia. One treatment we often use to help patients to feel more relaxed is sedation.

About sedation

Sedation is a treatment, which involves using sedative medication to make patients feel calm and reduce anxiety. We often recommend sedation for patients with dental phobia because it helps to prevent them from feeling nervous before they have treatment, as well as during the actual procedure. If patients know they are having sedation and they will not feel any pain or remember anything about the procedure, this makes treatment much less daunting and patients will feel much more confident when the day of their treatment arrives.

Sedation makes patients feel drowsy and relaxed without any of the risks of general anaesthetic and most people have very little memory of what happened during the procedure. After sedation, patients are able to go home with the help of a friend or relative and the effects of the drugs will wear off completely within the next 24 hours.

If you suffer from dental phobia and you had given up hope of overcoming your fears, we can help to change this and enable you to have treatment and take advantage of the benefits of regular dental checks.