Sedation Dentistry May Ease Fears

Sedation dentistry is a way for dentists to help patients overcome dental phobias, dental anxiety, and dental fears. At Tempe Dental Care, we thought it would interesting to do some research into some of the top things that are discussed online as things that people discuss as causing their dental anxiety and dental fear.

Some of their top causes were:

• The embarrassment of the thought that their teeth are the worst that the dentist has ever seen.
• The guilt, shame, and fear of being judged.
• The overwhelming loss of control of being in the dental chair.
• Fear that the dental cleaning or dental procedure will be too painful.
• I’m afraid of needles and the numbing injections hurt.
• Just walking into the door of the dentist office is scary.
• The sound of the drill is like nails on a chalkboard.
• I may need a lot of work done, I’m worried I won’t be able to keep my teeth.

Keep in mind, this is a very, very short list. There were hundreds of thousands of results for our Google search (and we only did a Google search). Sedation dentistry may be able help you overcome your dental anxiety, dental fear, or dental phobia. However, you won’t know this until you come in for a consultation.  Whether you’re looking for a way to start seeing a dentist regularly without anxiety or are looking to get extensive work done, call the dentists at Tempe Dental Care.