Dental Anxiety

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…

Dentistry

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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