Dental phobia

Imagine the following scenario:

You walk down the street and see a commercial for a dental office. It reminds you that you have long delayed your visit to the dentist. Even on that thought your heart starts to accelerate quickly, cold sweat gets you, you feel shaken and nauseated. To avoid discomfort, you go to the opposite side of the street and move away quickly.

Did you recognize this description? If you had, it is possible that you suffer from dental phobia.

Causes of dental phobia

Dental phobias are most often caused by bad experience at a dentist. Studies indicate that up to 85% of dental phobia can be reduced to this cause. It should be borne in mind that this nasty experience does not only consist of physical pain, but also psychological and emotional, e.g. in the form of humiliation by the dentist.

Although there is a general belief that people avoid dental procedures because they generally have a fear of pain, but that is not necessary. A proof to the contrary is that a person suffering from a dental phobia is able to withstand severe pain over long periods, in spite of them, does not want to see a dentist. The cause of the dental phobia may be the roughness of the dentist, i.e. the fear of the pain caused by a careless dentist.

Adopting a dental phobia based on observation of fear or intimidation by other persons. In this case, dental phobias arise without traumatic experience from the past. Inciting fear from dental procedures exist in various forms: from scary stories of parents and peers, to stereotypes about the roughness of dentists in the media, movies and cartoons. However, studies show that the observation of persons with fear of dentist or the ones intimidating others has no major influence on the development of dental phobia.

People may have a predisposition to learn some phobias, e.g. a needle injection phobia. It is a genetic predisposition that is based on learning of the fear from a potentially harmful phenomena, such as snake bite, height, or lightning.

People who learned and acquired these fears during evolution were likely to have more chances to survive and transfer their genes onto their offspring.

Types of fears from dental procedures

After a bad experience with a dentist, symptoms may be typical of PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). These are usually forced thoughts about bad experience, nightmares about dental experiences, etc. This in turn encourages the development of a dental phobia.

We conquer the fear together!

In Videntis, dental fears are successfully addressed with special attention and understanding as well as by proven dental hypnosis method available in Croatian, German and French.

Dental hypnosis

Dental hypnosis is a method of therapy by which you and the dentist stimulate the internal processes of change with conscious participation, reaching a state of comfort and peace of mind.

During the process, panic and fears disappear, you retain complete control over your body, you are always at full consciousness, aware of all surrounding events, feeling relaxed and without fear for the ongoing procedure.

Dental hypnosis in Videntis is applied to adults, but also to children with personal consent and presence of a parent. Find out more about dental hypnosis in Videntis on our web page “Dental hypnosis“.

Why turn to us your fight against fear of dentist:

In Videntis we pay particular attention to people who are afraid of dental works.
Dental hypnosis at our dental center is carried out by dr. Vidović, a trained dental hypnotherapist.
We have proven our expertise in the field of hypnosis in many of our patients, both adults and children.
With the use of dental hypnosis we even performed implant works.

Dental phobia may present through following:

1) Fear of blood
Fear of medical needle injection
Prolonged delay of the dentist visit despite great pain
Insomnia before visiting the dentist
Swelling, shaking or even panic attacks
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Consequences of dental phobia

Since people suffering from dental phobia avoid going to a dentist, this necessarily results in poor oral health.

Over time, it is manifested in disorders such as pain, chewing and digestive problems, speech problems, and esthetic problems.

Apart from poor oral health endangering the quality of life, it can add up to the development of life threatening diseases such as:

heart disease
gastrointestinal disease
lung infections
stroke
atherosclerosis
cause even premature delivery

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