| "Are you wasting your time with Continuous | | | | There's a lack of trust, sometimes the patient will even |
| Professional Development?" | | | | feel that the dentist is trying to 'make a buck' by selling |
| Dental implantology, cosmetic and aesthetic dentistry, | | | | them something they don't need! |
| endodontics, ortho, perio and practical restorative | | | | As for lack of time: the average dentist will spend |
| dentistry courses - is there anything missing? | | | | twice to three times as long with an anxious patient as |
| Yes there is! | | | | they do with a non-anxious one - not realising that you |
| The current dental training focus is all about building the | | | | can get rid your patients anxiety within a minute as |
| dentists technical and specialist skill base, but | | | | opposed to 10, 15 or even 20 minutes. |
| unfortunately though the general dental practitioner will | | | | The dentist isn't taught how to deal with their patients. |
| learn these skills, very rarely will they be given the | | | | Very rarely will a dentist be given practical 'hands on' |
| opportunity to use and practice them. That's the | | | | skills and training of the same quality as they receive in |
| unfortunate reality. | | | | the specialist technical skill based arena. |
| Why? | | | | So most dentists, for many years, will deal with |
| Many dentists just don't have enough rapport with their | | | | anxious patients at a very basic level, not realising for |
| patients or the time necessary to upgrade their | | | | example that they can eliminate dental anxiety in under |
| patients and offer them their very best. | | | | a minute. In fact, most dentists will feel anxious as a |
| Regarding their lack of rapport: the dentist has all the | | | | direct result of dealing with anxious patients - the |
| skills in their bag, eagerly anticipating when they can | | | | patient influences the practitioner - not good! |
| next use them but the patient just won't let them. | | | | |