{"id":138,"date":"2010-10-06T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/dental-advice\/does-your-inner-voice-say-i-am-afraid-of-the-dentist\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:14:18","slug":"does-your-inner-voice-say-i-am-afraid-of-the-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/does-your-inner-voice-say-i-am-afraid-of-the-dentist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Inner Voice Say "I Am Afraid Of The Dentist?""},"content":{"rendered":"

I was chatting with my wife after work\u00a0yesterday and\u00a0 we got talking about what can make someone feel anxious about a dental\u00a0visit or treatment\u00a0We have both worked in Dentistry for more years than we care\u00a0to\u00a0count and\u00a0interestingly we both identified one of the major causes of\u00a0 anxiety being what people had “heard from a friend” or what they have read about a specific treatment.<\/p>\n

I guess this is a common way to form opinions and judgements. We almost all subscribe to this approach in some aspect of our lives\u00a0yet\u00a0 it does not a particularly balanced, scientific or for that matter accurate way of doing things. For patients who suffer from dental fear or phobia in particular approach to forming opinions and judgements, while very natural,\u00a0\u00a0can be less than helpful.<\/p>\n

The way that we\u00a0process \u00a0information\u00a0 to make it useful to us\u00a0 ( in theory ) is based on\u00a0a mixture of \u00a0what we see, hear and\u00a0\u00a0read which is then filtered by our underlying beliefs. Now those of you patient ( and kind\u00a0) \u00a0enough to read my musings on all things\u00a0\u00a0dental will know that I frequently describe our subconscious as having 2 voices. One is the voice of doom that tells us that everything will go wrong with our treatment\u00a0 and “it” ( whatever “it” \u00a0is ) will be a dreadful experience.\u00a0 The other voice is our rational one that reassures us that everything will be ok and that if\u00a0 we choose the right people to help us with our dental fear and phobia everything will be fine.\u00a0 This is true even if it is our own personal experiences in the past\u00a0 that are forming our opinions and views today, the key here is finding someone who really is interested in helping you.<\/p>\n

So here is my question for you if we want to beat dental fear \u00a0which of our two voices should we feed the most, the positive reassuring one or the negative one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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There are lost of places on the web where you can hear reassuring stories that affirm the positive reality;\u00a0that modern dental care can be comfortable, informed, relaxed,\u00a0and pain free. Dental Fear Central<\/a> is just one great example. Whats more there a whole group\u00a0 of people ( like\u00a0the team at our Edinburgh Dental Practice<\/a>\u00a0 pictured to the right) \u00a0who are happy to have a chat by phone or e-mail \u00a0long before you ever have to actually visit to talk through your fears and concerns.<\/p>\n

Talking to enthusiastic professionals and finding positive examples of detal care\u00a0will not \u00a0solve dental fear entirely but if you want to change the way that you feel, they can help you to make a start, and in truth the hardest step is always\u00a0the first.<\/p>\n

So if you have a fear that is stopping you taking that first step why not take positive action and make contact with someone who can help to feed the positive voice that tells you that you can beat your dental fear<\/a>. If we can help in any way just let us know…..<\/p>\n

Have a great week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was chatting with my wife after work\u00a0yesterday and\u00a0 we got talking about what can make someone feel anxious about a dental\u00a0visit or treatment\u00a0We have both worked in Dentistry for more years than we care\u00a0to\u00a0count and\u00a0interestingly we both identified one of the major causes of\u00a0 anxiety being what people had “heard from a friend” or … Continue reading Does Your Inner Voice Say "I Am Afraid Of The Dentist?"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}