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Can you tell me how do i get over dental phobia?

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A visit: Visit the dentist with someone and observe some pleasant experiences.

Answered 10/29/2015

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Dr. Paul Grin answered

Specializes in Pain Management

See your dentist: Painless dental treatment may sound like an oxymoron, but new techniques and advanced anesthesia are making it a reality for many patients. It helps you to save cracked teeth, maintain your natural smile, continue eating the foods you love and improve your general health.

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Find a great dentist: Find someone you get along with and makes you comfortable.....I would run from anyone claiming to be painless....those people scare me and hide behind devices and ploys....I treat people daily that swore they needed sedatives and to be 'asleep' Have a good dental experience and start to forget all the bad ones that kept you away!

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CBT: Seek a cognitive-behavioral therapist who specializes in phobias. One method they use is systematic desensitization which slowly and incrementally brings the person closer and closer to the thing they are afraid of in slow, graduated steps that help make the anxiety more tolerable.

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Dental phobia: For Phobias consider Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy, Exposure therapy (imaginal exposure therapy, systematic desensitization, flooding, prolonged exposure therapy, in vivo exposure therapy) or hypnosis as possible options. Psychotropic medications are sometimes indicated as well.

Answered 10/31/2015

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