What is the Dental fear, its reasons, and how to over come it?

What Makes You Fear the Dentist?
In spite of it is common now to undergo painless dentistry treatments, there are a number of reasons why adults have a fear of dentists or general dental fear. 

Some of those reasons are as follows:

• If an adult has had a bad dental experience as a child, then it may lead to long term dental fear.

Dental fear

• Listening to dental fiascos of others.
• The dentist himself may be the cause lf the fear. While the person suffering from dental fear may not have felt severe pain during a visit to the dentist, some adults develop a fear of dentists due to an experience with an unpleasant or cold dentist. A dentist with an unpleasant nature can instigate dental anxiety in a person.
• Sometimes patients are simply afraid of what they do not know. Most dental visits require a dentist to poke and prod inside of a patient’s mouth. However, the patient usually cannot see what is going on and this can evoke dental fear.

Thus, confronting dental fear and visiting the dentist more regularly will actually help a patient avoid more serious treatments.

Whatever the reason, it is important to overcome dental fear, and anxiety.

How to Overcome Dental Anxiety?

There are a number of ways of overcoming dental anxiety. Some of those ways that adults overcome their fear of dentists are as follows:

• Having the right dentist can help alleviate dental fear.
• Choose one that puts you at ease and makes you feel as comfortable as possible.
• Do not choose a cheap dentist just save money. By doing so, you might run a higher risk of aggravating your pre-existing propensity to be afraid of your dentist.
• It is important to find someone who can administer gentle dental work.
• If you really want to overcome dental anxiety, you need to be in a dental hospital that is clean and well equipped.This will give you a lot of confidence and psychological comfort.
• Meditate beforehand. Clearing the mind is known to help people overcome any kind of phobia, including dental phobia.You do it while your entire body and mind is at greater peace.
• Confront your fear, don’t suppress it. While pushing your fear of dentists to the side might be a short term solution, it won’t help you in the long run. Instead, you should try to address your fear.
• You may be afraid of the dentist without really knowing why. Spend some time trying to reflect upon the reason and seeing if there is a way you can overcome what might be an irrational fear.

Sedation Dentistry or sleep dentistry

If none of these tactics help you overcome your dental fear, you may want to consider sedation dentistry.

Sedation dentistry, sometimes known as sleep dentistry, allows patients with severe dental anxiety to undergo sedation prior to receiving dental treatment.

Options for sedation dentistry include:

• Laughing Gas
• Oral Dental Sedation
• IV sedation
• If you are interested in sedation dentistry or overcoming your dental fear, you may want to consider dental tourism.

Thanks
Dentist Manal Raafat