Nervous patients often put off dental appointments
until problems can no longer be ignored. They may be phobic, tense, and
anxious before and during the appointment, often requesting tranquilizers
before procedures. They can take extra time and require extra
considerations. Hypnosis can ease or eliminate the tension, anxiety, fear,
and other issues. Using basic relaxation techniques, special places, and
post-hypnotic suggestions about relaxation in the dentist's chair.
To help a patient adapt to a device, induce
hypnosis and give strong and positive end-result imagery. This is to
reinforce how comfortable, how confident, and how much they like how they
look. Post-hypnotic suggestions will be directed at how comfortable the
appliance will be in the awake state.
Teach client to induce relaxation technique using anchors/post-hypnotic
suggestions while in the dentist's chair, or in some cases, sitting near the
patient while he/she is undergoing the procedure.
Modifying injurious dental habits such as unconscious grinding of the teeth
Use anchors and post -hypnotic suggestions
regarding relaxation and comfortable sleep.
Reducing the use of chemical anesthesia or analgesia during the dental procedure
Glove anesthesia can be used for numbing the
tissue in the mouth so the patient won't feel the discomfort of a needle or
other work the dentist must do. Special place induction will remove the
patient from the dentist's chair with suggestions that what is happening is
happening at a distance while he/she remains comfortable in a special place.
Hypnosis is its amnesia level for unpleasant work
Inducing hypnosis at its Theta brain wave
level…very deep, and giving suggestions that maintain deep relaxation during
the procedure. This is often best accomplished with the hypnotherapist
present during the procedure.
Preventing nausea and gagging
Suggesting that the mouth will be fine and the
gag reflex is inoperative during the time of the procedure and the stomach
is calm and comfortable, and he/she finds it very easy to relax, etc.
Controlling the flow of saliva
Suggestions should be imagery of the mouth being
dry, as dry as he/she would like it to be, during the dental work.
Control of bleeding
Create imagery for tissue healing and blood
vessels becoming smaller with the flow of blood very minimal.
Postoperative analgesia
Reinforce the desired outcome of the procedure and having the patient imagine the tissue in the mouth healing quickly and normally, experiencing only pressure and a relaxing sensation of numbness. Suggestions for postoperative analgesia should always emphasize normal and natural healing.