Dental Fear, Anxiety and stop-signals are real - web statistics
May 16, 2008
Dental fear and anxiety is real.
- There are 358,000 references to dental anxiety on the internet according to google.
- There are 313,000 references to dental fear on the internet according to google.
To address dental fear and anxiety, most publications and articles suggest that dental professionals and dental patients utilize hand stop-signals (raise your hand) to improve communication and reduce dental anxiety during dental procedures.
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There are 2,750,000 references on the internet suggesting the use of stop-signals (raise your hand) to alieve dental anxiety during a dental procedure.
Stop signals do not enable communication during dental procedures. We need more than one hand signal for effective communication. We need a suite of hand signals to foster a patient-dentist team approach.
Restoring a sense of control to the patient through communciation builds trust between the patient and dental professional, and provides a better dental experience for both patient and dentist.
Establishment of trust is the foremost concern in the patient-dentist relationship. DentiSign enables the dentist to build trust with the patient, and allows the patient to become part of the dental team in their procedure.
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