Dental Anxiety Hawthorn

If you experience fear and anxiety just thinking about the dentist, you’re not alone. According to recent surveys, dental anxiety may affect up to 60% of the population. That’s why our team here at Elevate Dental Hawthorn Melbourne takes extra care to listen to our patients and provide the strategies you need to feel comfortable and safe.

If you experience fear and anxiety just thinking about the dentist, you’re not alone. According to recent surveys, dental anxiety may affect up to 60% of the population. That’s why our team here at Elevate Dental Hawthorn Melbourne takes extra care to listen to our patients and provide the strategies you need to feel comfortable and safe.

What is Dental Anxiety

 
Dental anxiety is worse than fear because it often causes people to avoid the dentist altogether. This can set one up for a lifetime of dental problems that can spread past the mouth and affect the health of the entire body if allowed to continue. How do you know if you experience dental anxiety or are just procrastinating? Some signs of dental anxiety include:

How Elevate Dental Can Help

 
At Elevate Dental, we do everything we can to make a comfortable and safe space for you to visit. Firstly, we ensure our waiting room is a calm and quiet atmosphere with soothing music. We provide you with noise-cancelling headphones so you can listen to music or watch movies to entertain you during treatment.

We can also provide medications that help calm you before your appointment and nitrous oxide (or happy gas) during treatment so you can relax and maybe even enjoy the experience. And mainly, you can count on our well-trained, compassionate and knowledgeable staff who will always consider your feelings first. Here is our approach:

What You Can Do

Child Dental Anxiety

 
Children are also prone to dental anxiety. This may be due to behaviour learned from parents, or pain in a tooth that brings apprehension when someone tries to look at it. We can help your child calm with various methods like toys and movies.

Bringing your child in at a young age can help stop dental anxiety before it begins. Our team at Elevate Dental encourages you to bring your child to your dental checkups. We will make them feel comfortable and even give them a ride in the chair afterwards. Bring a comfort blanket or toy for them, and we will provide an after-visit gift. All of these techniques can work together to lessen your child’s apprehension when it comes time for their first dental checkup.

Child Dental Anxiety

Children are also prone to dental anxiety. This may be due to behaviour learned from parents, or pain in a tooth that brings apprehension when someone tries to look at it. We can help your child calm with various methods like toys and movies.

Bringing your child in at a young age can help stop dental anxiety before it begins. Our team at Elevate Dental encourages you to bring your child to your dental checkups. We will make them feel comfortable and even give them a ride in the chair afterwards. Bring a comfort blanket or toy for them, and we will provide an after-visit gift. All of these techniques can work together to lessen your child’s apprehension when it comes time for their first dental checkup.

Call Today

 
Don’t let dental anxiety stop you from your best health and beautiful smile. Call today on 1300 2 SMILE, and together, we can make your dental experience a positive one.

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