Dental fear
Specialised assessment and treatment for adults fearing dental treatment (EFT Tapping, CBT, EMDR), a common and highly treatable phobic fear
Common issues include:
- Avoiding dental check-ups completely, or putting them off till they are months or years overdue
- Worsening dental health causing pain and stress
- Enduring dental treatment only with high anxiety and distress
- Feeling helpless when seeing the dentist
- Panicking during dental treatment
- Uncontrollable gagging and fear of vomiting during dental work
- Becoming self-conscious and anxious about “performing” at the dentist (being able to co-operate properly when feeling tense, frightened, and uncomfortable)
- Dealing with traumatic memories and stress of horrific earlier experiences triggered by the sights, sounds and smells of dental treatment
- Due to stressful nature of this fear, greater likelihood of other mental health problems such as depression, general anxiety, social phobia, and unexplained health problems