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Introducing Clinical Hypnosis to Dentists: Special Challenges and Strategies
1Canadian Society for Clinical Hypnosis (B.C.).
Abstract:
Dentistry is a natural match for clinical hypnosis. The special characteristics and requirements of dental diagnostic and treatment processes offer daily opportunities for dentists and patients to replace anxiety, pain, and uncontrolled challenges with confidence, comfort, and fully controlled solutions. The ways in which hypnosis can be used in dentistry are reviewed. However, dentists have not as a profession readily accepted, studied, nor utilized hypnosis for their clinical practices. The reasons for this poor linkage are catalogued and explained to both dentist and nondentist readers. Strategies and suggestions are made for introducing clinical hypnosis to dentists so that they might more readily and fully integrate useful hypnotic techniques into their dental practices.
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