DENTAL CARE - Hypnosis: it is also effective in children

To the psychologist or the dentist, hypnosis has proven effective on children. They are often even more receptive than adults!

The techniques used are a little different. Suggestions spend more with gestures, games, music or exchange their favorite movie, by a doctor of the speech. In interpreting a character, the child may, without realizing it, to express its anguish easier and free themselves with the support of the therapist. "The key is to capture their interest. When I do the play therapy, signs of a hypnotic trance appear very quickly. I'll be able to come up with a suggestion and there, it's very effective, "says a psychologist.

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"A child comes into hypnosis easily, but emerges as quickly. So when I treat a cavity, for example, if he feels pain, he goes out of his trance immediately and will be difficult to calm. That is why it is necessary at the outset to give some anesthetic, even if the doses are lower than without hypnosis, "says Dr. Jan Rienhoff, dentist and orthodontist in Hanover (Germany). The child, calmer, then leaves treated more easily, which reduces the number and duration of the consultations.

Other interest: provide a role for parents. "During the consultation, I sometimes ask adult present to hold the head of her child and caress gently to let him know that his mother or father is there. It reassures and that hypnosis enhances the action, "said Dr. Rienhoff. Parents can also learn some exercises during the sessions, they can then reuse at home with their child, to calm his fears.

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Who's afraid of the dentist?

It 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.

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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Origin of dentophobia

For about 30% of our patients, the origin of their dental phobia dates back to childhood and is due to traumatic experiences during dental treatments. The pain experienced during treatment are equally often mentioned that the brutal and callous behavior of the dentist. Another third of respondents is the beginning of their phobia in scary stories reported by others, often the parents. No origin phobia can be determined for the third.

The percentage of the latter group should be certainly higher. Dental phobia is indeed often a kind of primitive fear deeply rooted in the subconscious and irrational, such as fear of spiders or mice. This is confirmed by our observations that the number of cases has even increased over the past twenty years that dentistry today is an objective point of view much more "human" than before.

The main reasons mentioned for dentophobie "pure fear of the dentist"

It is not surprising that almost half of patients surveyed consider the fear of pain as the main reason for their dental phobia. This corresponds to conventional stereotypes that associate dental pain dental treatments that are happening today generally painless.

Fear or phobia of injections is also a pattern that is often cited by dentophobiques patients. The injection of local anesthesia today is an integral part of many dental treatments and is accepted by most patients willy nilly because it reduces the pain experienced during treatment. In such cases, the extreme fear often leaves no room for the slightest ratio

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The consequences of dentophobie

People with an irrepressible fear of dentists will avoid traveling in consultation as they can. It is not only the professional dental cleaning done by the assistant dental hygiene which will no longer because all regularly but so will the dental control to prevent diseases of the teeth and gums that will be totally helpless. Poor oral hygiene then provides a breeding ground for bacterial plates that can cause gingivitis and periodontitis and promotes the profusion of caries. Chronic infections of the gum and periodontal as well as acute purulent processes (abscess) are the consequence. That's when the dentophobe patient with toothache is caught in a vicious circle: the more physical and mental suffering becomes unbearable, the more apprehensive to go to the consultation becomes inevitable as and as time pass.

The anxiety of these people is often not taken seriously by relatives or friends, they are often even ridiculed. Unfortunately, many dentists do not always have the understanding that he would. So the dentist phobic patients often have no one to confide in. In addition, cosmetic damage and bad breath are the direct result of the increasing deterioration of the teeth. People affected by this problem are often ashamed and dare not smile, they are afraid to appear in public. Thus they may increasingly become socially isolated.

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What is a phobia ?

A phobia is a fear in medical terms or a state of panic exaggerated, unfounded and persistent in certain situations, facing certain objects, activities, or persons, that is to say in general face the phobic stimulus.

It is expressed in an excessive need to avoid disproportionate because of fear. Examples of known phobias are fear of flying, spiders and the claustrophobia. The term phobia however is also used in a general sense to describe the repulsion of any kind.

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Fear of flying
Fear of spiders
The dentist phobia

Hypnosis moved to the dentist

Increasingly used in medicine and surgery, hypnosis makes a grand entrance at dentists. With an objective: to reassure anxious patients and relieve during care.

Hypnosis: to overcome fear

How to overcome fear to the dentist? Enjoying a refreshing strawberry ice cream. Through hypnosis, it is possible.

"The mouth numb, legs become lighter, a phobic patient joins a" place of gold "where she found the necessary resources for their well-being," says Karine Barmas, dental assistant. Hypnosis makes real services to patients, but also to practitioners. As shown by health professionals gathered in Biarritz on 2, 3 and 4 June, at the Forum of the medical hypnosis and brief therapy.

Hypnosis: to win real

"There is nothing miraculous. The willingness and patient cooperation are essential, "said Dr Bernard Delzangles, dentist, which uses hypnosis to some of its interventions with those who agree to try. The goal is to create an environment in which the person feel good. At the first appointment, the dentist or his assistant, invites the patient to relate pleasant memories. "I ask him to get to know him and work with him on a safe place (the sea, the room ...)," says Karine Barmas.

Relaxation facilitates hypnosis

On the day, both can open a door and mentally join a situation mentioned (as tasting of ice). It is also important to separate the patient this time, helping it to focus on a fixed point, a music ... Relaxation, used to facilitate hypnosis allows complete relaxation, including on the face and jaws. Care can begin. The procedure takes a little longer, but the resulting welfare (no pain and stress) the fully justified.

Hypnosis: it does not always prevent anesthesia

In some cases, local anesthesia is still necessary, hypnosis while remaining valuable. "Even when using an anesthetic is injected less product. The person has less fear, she also hurt less. The results are surprising, "says Karine Barmas. The greatest reward: see the patient get up, smiling.

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