Thursday, May 7, 2015

Who's afraid of the dentist?


dentist phobia treatmentIt is, in most cases, slight apprehensions or passing anxieties that do not hinder a control, see a regular dental treatment. It is different with the real dentophobie also qualified dental phobia of odontophobie or oralophobie: panic here is such that the person who has it (phobic person) will do anything to avoid going to the dentist . In many cases, while the dental treatment can take place at the last moment, that is to say, when such pain becomes unbearable.


Unlike normal fear of dentists, true phobia is often accompanied by physical symptoms that occur just before treatment. Is observed with decreasing frequency of cases:

  • sleepless in the night before the treatment
  • heart palpitations
  • acceleration of the heart beat (tachycardia)
  • of dry mouth
  • increase in blood pressure (hypertension)
  • tremors
  • choking sensations
  • hyperventilations of (too rapid breathing)
  • nausea
  • urgent need to urinate
  • vomiting
  • syncopation and voltage drop.

In general, dental phobia is more common in women of all age groups than men.

Factors favoring dentophobie:


  • predisposition to anxiety in general,
  • phobias or known mental illnesses,
  • depression
  • intense stress,
  • drug or alcohol abuse.

fear of dentists and phobia
Experience has shown that more than half of anxiety patients are smokers. While on average 25% of the adult population smokes, we have found in people suffering from dental phobia a rate of 64% of smokers.








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