Dental Anxiety - How to Deal with Difficult Patients

[@Lanna-gr5oh]

Title to this video made me feel bad. I’m not difficult I’m just really scared from a traumatic dental visit and it gives me panic attacks.

[@annettesonnenberg7606]

Wish you were my dentist. Felt calmer just listening to you.

[@jessman8597]

I've been on the brink of suicide over upcoming dentist appointments. Your suggestions are the things that make the biggest difference for me. Thanks.

[@nessilian]

When I went to the dentist after 15 yrs, I had to get some work done. My first appointment was general diagnostics and establishing my needs. I was shaking and my Dr realised that. He just went back a little, looked at the scans and told me, that I need one tooth removed and two implants. I asked him, if I could get anaesthesia and he said in some, I don`t know - way: No, I don`t think, you`ll need that, I get you through this. And I just believed him - I don`t know why. I had to get another 8 appointments, I did some dentalhygiene, new composit fillings and after around 2,5 months, I had new teeth and I don`t feel anything anymore. The one thing, I can remember, that helped alot was, that he didn`t overexplain things. I am no professional anyway, so it wouldn`t have helped, if he would have described me each step along the way. A general: It`s a little implant, takes me 2 Minutes each, in 20 Minutes you will be out of the chair again. That`s it, I didn`t have to know more. And, as he told me, the procedure took less than 10 Minutes, pulling a tooth, 2 Implants. I had to wait for local anaesthesia to develop around 10 Minutes. The rest was a joke. It even went so far to not needing any local anaesthesia for the new fillings...

[@marianchacon5289]

I'M ANXIOUS JUST THINKING ABOUT TOOTH EXTRACTION . SINCE I GOT ENDOCARDITIS YEARS AGO, AFTER WISDOM TOOTH EXTRACTION. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR ADVICE. I SURE WISH YOU WERE MY DOCTOR. TQ KINDLY 😊

[@RipeGlobal]

Best of luck!

[@VanessaLemin-zn3np]

I wish this dentist was mine.. The dentist I recently had to return to after haven had an extraction was so traumatising I am now starting counselling as I can’t stop crying and feel like the worse failure ever … The dentist practice was informed of my fear and how it came about …To ad to the problem I now have unfinished dental work and the Owner of the practice has declined to keep me as patient…

[@aneeqaahsan5757]

So sorry to hear this

[@catherinebirch2399]

Most dental phobias are the result of traumatic dental treatments in childhood. In the 50's and 60's dentists didn't use novocaine before filling teeth. The pain was excruciating.

[@lawriefoster5587]

I am 71 and that is my problem!!

[@Sunnyside499]

Amazing doctor ❤

[@RipeGlobal]

Thank you! 🙂