hypnosis and dentistry

Treatment of dental anxiety and phobias

• Stress management for the patient
• Teaching relaxing techniques and ego strengthening
• Desensitizing phobias and teaching new techniques with NLP to help make treatment less frightening for the patient

Hypnotic treatment of pain

• Pain management in temporomandibular joint problems
• Management of trigeminal neuralgia and phantom tooth pain
• Help with atypical facial pain which has no physical apparent cause

Pain control in surgery; fillings and extractions (production of analgesia)

• Hypnotic control of gagging
• Help with tolerance of appliances eg dentures, orthodontic appliances
• Hypnotic treatment of bad habits eg thumb sucking, tongue thrusting, smoking
• Help with treatment of mouth ulcers and gum disease by mind-body healing
• Helping to promote healthy healing and reduction of post operative swelling or pain