Does the thought of sitting in the dentist’s chair fill you with worry? Or perhaps it’s the smells and sounds of the treatment room that make you feel anxious and sick? If a fear of the dentist is stopping you from getting the dental care you need, it might be time to turn to hypnosis. 

Hypnosis is an underused, yet powerful, benign tool in dentistry, it provides effective sedation, while leaving you as the patient, in full control. Hypnosis has many uses within the dental field, ranging from simple relaxation of the anxious patient to complete analgesia for surgery

A huge number of us fear going to the dentist. In fact, around 50% experience some kind of anxiety when it comes to the bi-annual dentist trip while for up to 10%,a dental phobia is life changing.

Hypnosis can be used to help rid you of your phobia and treat chronic dental pain. By muting all of those irrational thoughts in the human brain, hypnosis can create a feeling a calm confidence – enabling you to get through those appointments and treatments that have troubled you the most.

You will be taught how to relax through the use of visualisation. The process will also feature a number of stages, meaning you’ll never be pushed into something you’re uncomfortable with.

What’s more, hypnosis has also been proven to lower blood pressure. So in cases of dental work, you may also experience a speedier recovery time.

It’s important to note that not all phobias will be the same. Some will fear the smells and noises at a clinic or needles while others will fear the lack of control. Some phobias will also develop as a result of bad experiences that one might have had as a child.