Alistair Mayoh details how to create a trusting environment.
Dental phobia/anxiety
Jacob Watwood emphasises the need for personal patient support to improve oral health.
Oral health and mouth cancer
Dr Vee Shathur breaks down mechanisms to manage anxiety in the dental surgery and knowing when to intervene with sedation.
Dental phobia/anxiety
Sabrina Pahal explores the role of dental nurses in delivery of inhalation sedation to paediatric patients
Dental phobia/anxiety
Dental therapist, tutor and coach Christine MacLeavy suggests the steps you can take to help with anxiety management in practice
Dental phobia/anxiety
How does your practice meet the needs of your more nervous patients?
Dental phobia/anxiety
Lizzy Hudd started her dental career as a dental nurse. She now runs Grants Dental in Royal Wootton Bassett – a practice that specialises in treating patients with dental fear and anxiety
People profiles
In the second of a two-part look at dental anxiety, fear and phobia, dental therapist Christine Macleavy considers complementary therapies as adjuncts
Leadership/team working
As a dental therapist, with many years of clinical experience, managing the anxious and phobic patient has become a major part of Christine Maclevy's work. Here, in the first of two articles, she...
People profiles
Elderly residents should be helped to brush their teeth twice a day, says NICE – but how to overcome the challenges of communication?
Elderly care
In the second of this two-part article, Maggie Nash investigates dentally anxious patients and cognitive behavioural therapies
Dental phobia/anxiety