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What is a phobia?
It is helpful to answer this question by first understanding the difference between a fear and a phobia. Let’s say something in your immediate environment has caused you to feel fear.Read More....
What is dental phobia?
Statistics suggest that, in western countries, phobias afflict 7-13% of the population and that women are twice as likely to suffer from a phobia as men.Read More....
Are you dental phobic?
One of the biggest problems for dental phobics in the past was that their phobia was dismissed as fear. People thought that everybody was afraid of the dentist and nobody liked a visit to their local dental practice. Read More.....
What is fear for?
Fear is one of our most valuable instincts. It aids our self-preservation, reminds us to beware of certain situations and helps us with risk assessment. From that perspective, Read More....
Why are we afraid of dentists?
Dentophobia is a very common fear. But why is it so common? Obviously, there is the pain factor. But surely that cannot be the sole reason. In fact, when you talk to people who are Read More.......
What if my child has a phobia?
Recently, the BBC reported on a tragic story that revolved around a case of dental phobia. An eight-year-old girl, who suffered from a severe dental phobia, was so traumatised by dental work Read More.....
What about special needs patients?
Everyone deserves quality dental care. However, not everybody is able or comfortable enough to enjoy care in a standard dental practice. Some people need specially designed environment Read More.....
Where can I find out more about my phobia?
If you go onto google.com and search under the word ‘phobia’, you might come across the website www.phobialist.com www.phobialist.com lists every type of phobia that doctors have ever diagnosed Read More.....
How to visit your dentist less
To be quite frank, the best way to manage your phobia is to get the professional support you need to overcome it. However, it is also important for phobia sufferers to do everything that they can to Read More......
How do you cure your dental phobia?
In the past, phobias have often been treated as a personality quirk. Now, the medical profession has a much more structured approach to supporting phobia sufferers and many more effective treatments Read More....
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