Fobia And Anxious When You Have To Go To A Dental Doctor? Calm Down, Here's How To Overcome

YOGYAKARTA Not everyone can calm down when they have to check regularly or check their teeth when there is a problem with dentists. Some people experience anxiety, even have a phobia, or are called dentophobia. This makes them often absent when they are supposed to have a dental check. Anxiety during dental examination, is described as a fear of looking for dental treatment. It is also one of the most common conditions that affects the global population. People with this anxiety, are afraid of the pain caused by injections or dental kinetics. They may also fear bad news. Like the problem of teeth, such as cavities and having to be treated with certain treatment.

Launching PsychCentral, Monday, January 6, fear or phobia of dentists is described as a reaction to the threats felt in the dentist's office. This causes a response to resistance, run, or freeze. The researchers described it as an intense, persistent, and unrealistic response to the perceived threat. Research in 2022, explains the difference between fear, anxiety, and phobia to dentists.

Fear of dentists is a reaction to events or known treatments. Fear arises when they know what dentists will do and feel nervous about what will happen. While anxiety, including general reactions to unknown hazards that can affect anyone. This often happens when patients get treatment from dentists who have never previously been experienced. Dentophobia, including specific phobias characterized by continuous, strong, and non-realistic fear that causes a person to avoid perceived threats. Phobia to dentists usually avoid dentists at all costs.

In general, fear of visiting dentists, the symptoms are four stages. Among other things, fear of dentists, delay visits or routine checks, experience tooth problems, and only perform treatment when experiencing tooth problems. Even so, the level of anxiety does not correlate with decreasing oral health. Symptoms of fear or anxiety to phobias check with dentists, including difficulty sleeping, stomach feeling nausea or unwell, heart palpitations, feeling danger, cold sweat, shaking or tremors will come, and difficulty concentrating on duty. Ways to deal with anxiety or phobia checks to dentists, among others as follows:

In addition to the above method, for dentophobia sufferers, they can undergo cognitive behavioral therapy (Cognitive Behavior Therapy / CBT). That means, handling can involve independent efforts to carry out calming activities before examining a dentist. It can also ask for help from a mental health professional to help overcome anxiety, fear and phobia of checking with a dentist.