How do you make those around you understand your fear of the dentist

How do you make those around you understand your fear of the dentist

Dentofobie I suffered for ten years. Now smile without fear in sunlight, but do not forget a single moment that they are among the few lucky ...

Dentofobia (very extreme fear of the dentist, which looks more like a pathological state than anxiety) affects a considerable number of patients in Romania - we can not know exactly how many, unfortunately, because nobody talks about it.

Returning to dentofobiei causes, one of the reasons leading to irreversible trauma is a misconception about dental care our parents.

Unfortunately, those who grew up under communism were rooted belief that "the dentist hurts, but you have to go".

But you're in a position to be dentofobic in a modern world, where general anesthesia may be, the local is mandatory and physicians are the right kind, it will be hard to explain to someone why you can not steps in dental treatment.
How do you make those around you understand your fear of the dentist
Often count as people close to you understand the problem, because they will be the ones who will accompany, support and even help you pay treatment (especially if you're a minor / a).

In addition, under 18 you need parental consent to surgery that involves general anesthesia.

Your entourage becomes important to understand what you're going through to avoid:

- Expose you smell "the dentist" who physically hurt you
- To make embarrassing remarks about the appearance of your teeth
- Judge you as someone who does not care for teeth
- Giving advice 'precious' oral health when not necessary
- To show you pictures / video with dental surgery
- To open discussions about their wisdom teeth removed
- To put you in strange and traumatic situations: controls "ad-hoc"

Compare symptoms with a known disease

Dentofobia a disease, but it is not recognized by "public opinion" and some doctors as such. Try to explain what happens to you when you think / you approach a dentist and how do you physical harm.

By 2003, I realized that some of my outbursts of cabinet resembled early epilepsy: chills, tremors, loss of control of movements, so-called foaming at the mouth. Focus on effects, not on what you fear cause (it will be hard to open this topic).

Remind them of their pain

Causes them to remember the last time he hurt a decayed molar. Then put them in mind that you have more that once and sometimes you miss it impossible to know where the abscess.

Ask them how they would look sharp object stuck in the middle of that painful tooth. Does not seem so easy to "beat your fear and make an appointment at the dentist", right?

Make them aware of the effects

If not treated quickly, managing to "go around" barriers dentofobiei, you have unsightly teeth. They may no longer have any, and when the world will be sufficiently open to support you and that you will find the ideal doctor, you might you can not even get implants. It's dramatic, but it's true that you will have to live if they do not help.

Over time, dentofobia affects you greatly in psychological: nightmares from now may degenerate into a state of generalized anxiety (plus insomnia, panic attacks, uncontrollable crying halves), which will darken every aspect of life.

Show them that they can

Search the Internet testimonials of former patients dentofobi and send them the wary. Will realize not only that this disease exists and is severely neglected, but the miracle of the "beat your fear" will not happen overnight.

In Romania there are too many dentists and psychologists who accept and understand the phenomenon, so you will need all the support up to find them. Being here is a good start: you're not alone / to in your pain. And pain and fear will sooner or later end.