Dental Anxiety
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Anxiety-alleviating dentistry: Veronica’s vision
Restorative dentist Dr Veronica Morris reveals her clinic’s multidisciplinary approach to helping patients overcome their anxiety that, for one patient,…
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Enhancing patient comfort and control in periodontal treatment
Lottie Manahan discusses how developments in technology can be used to help with periodontal treatment in anxious patients. Periodontal patients…
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Patients with dental phobia: a sound long-term investment
Known as ‘The Calming Dentist’, Dr Niall Neeson from Boyne Dental in Navan, explains why ensuring access to dentistry for…
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Digital design keeps patients smiling
Straumann explores how digital smile design can assist patients with dental anxiety, from scanning to communication. Concepts like digital smile…
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Dental anxiety in disability: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Abi Chapman talks to us about her experiences receiving dental care whilst living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It is common knowledge…
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Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… One quarter of…
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Animal therapy in practice reduces dental fear among children
Animal-assisted therapy is a good way to calm down children who have a phobia of going to the dentist. This…
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Top tips for managing patients with dental anxiety
Chinwe Akuonu talks dental anxiety and how dental teams can reassure and comfort nervous patients. Dental anxiety can be described…
Dentistry
Can art help promote your practice, whilst also relaxing your patients?
Zibasmile London explains how art can help relax patients during treatments, but also inform them at the same time. Many…
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Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… COVID-19 – ‘fear,…
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Dentally-anxious children to be helped using CBT in £1.6 million study
One third of children have a fear of the dentist – but now a study will look to see whether…
Dentistry
Dental anxiety – building the perfect dental practice
Dental anxiety affects around half of UK adults. Trishala Lakhani explains how she would build a practice perfectly catered to…
Dentistry
More than a fifth of UK workers avoid dentist for ‘fear of pain’
A fear of pain and financial worries put off British workers from visiting the dentist, a survey has revealed. More…
Dentistry
Dental anxiety could lead to lower income and social isolation
Dental anxiety could lead to feelings of shame, poor self confidence and social isolation, a new study has shown. Published…
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Don’t let dental anxiety build among your patients
Dental practices don’t need to be places your patients fear, Amanda Pope says. Going to the dentist should not be a…
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Effective solutions to combat dental anxiety
Two thirds (67%) of Brits admit to having anxiety when it comes to visiting the dentist for a check-up, according to…
Oral health
Putting dental phobic patients at ease
Exploring some of the clinical and non-clinical ways of dealing with patients with dental phobias. Dentophobia is a common affliction.…
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Dental anxiety in children could be reduced with cartoons
Watching cartoons whilst receiving treatment could help reduce children’s dental anxiety and distress, a new study has shown. The study,…
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