Blog 19 - Third Answer

• EQ: What are the best ways for a dentist to ease a patients anxiety?
• Answer #3: One of the best ways for a dentist to ease a patient's anxiety is by encouraging and using technologies and methods that can help to put patients at ease.
• One of the many technologies that actually help to put a patient at ease during a dental visit is music. By encouraging the use of music as a form of "therapy" during a visit the patient will be able to feel more at ease.
• Dental Sedation and cognitive behavioral therapy are both methods that an office can encourage for an anxious patient.
• By staying updated and advanced with dental technologies the patient can be sure that they are going to a good dentist.
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• A patient will be able to feel more at ease by knowing that the dentist is able to offer options to them about methods that will help them be able to manage their anxiety and have the best possible experience at the dentist.