What you can do.
To overcome fears, choose what type of patient is:
1. - The hopeful, confident that the technology and understanding can improve you life, and is willing to overcome.
2. - The penitent, but distrustful, he wanted to overcome her fears and not decided at all.
3 - The cobbler, who does not care mouth care and just wants to take away the pain today.
He located? What you are and what you want to be?
Phone the dentist, tell what your problem is and ask for an interview with the apparatus NO sight. Say honestly if you're serious, if you want to try or if you just want to get by.
Shame. Do not have it, nor by fears or by the state of his mouth. Shame we should have dentists that took him to this.
Timetable. We dismantle, will be calmer if not must wait in the reception, where the tension increases.
Communicate. Feel free to explain your problem and the source, if known, for example, have been badly treated in small or big or going through a horrendous removal of tonsils, etc..
Nothing in the first session: and in the dental chair, do not let him do anything out of the observation and, at best, radiographs. Or even nothing at all, except talk. And promise yourself that in the future you will not have explained anything without prior OK.
Your question does not bother: help. Ask, ask and ask. Ask to have the feeling that you are in control and not the dentist.
Music to calm down, you can take your own MP3 or iPod, or whatever. But do not let cut communication with the dentist.
The company of a friend or relative at the reception can help some.
Anesthesia, all you feel is necessary and more. Not everyone has the same sensitivity to pain. Anesthesia can order more if you are sure you need it, but be careful not to confuse with noise and pressure pain. The most sensitive are more anesthesia or must wait longer to take effect or leave the task for another day.
Relax. Try to think of other things, like making plans for the upcoming holidays or to remember the good from the past. A patient of mine took off his shoes and was engaged to move the toes, one by one. An engineer took a minute to relax with yoga techniques. Some people go progressively relaxing your muscles or perform special breaths. Choose your method works for you or maybe you propose any dentist.
Stop sign. Raising your hand, for example, the dentist to instantly what you are doing, a British psychologist, W. G. Cumberbatch, in an experiment, gave control patients stopping the lathe and found not stopped more than once or twice, because they assumed control of the situation. The signal can be used for a break or for a question. It could also be that one day is not deemed to continue sitting. Plantéelo.
Do not ask hypnosis, or general anesthesia or sedation. There is a remedy for your problem. But one can ask for calming anxiety before the session. It is not advisable to drink alcohol with this order. Not attend on an empty stomach or too loaded.
After each session, you can give himself a reward for contributing to the success.
