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Gender Roles in Dental Phobia

In an effort to better understand dental phobia, research comparing gender and emotional reaction to dental treatments has recently been published in the European Journal of Oral Sciences. While there isn’t a huge gap between the number of men who are afraid of the dentist and their female counterparts, the study showed that women are […]

Overcome Your Dental Phobia

If you experience anxiety about visiting the dentist, you’re not alone. Millions of Americans avoid the increasingly important bi-annual appointment for a myriad of reasons. People have cited such reasons as anxiety from the sounds of dental equipment, pain associated with procedures, fear of needles, fear of the dentist himself and criticism for not coming […]