{"id":554,"date":"2017-01-10T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drbenatkins.co.uk\/?p=554"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:58:35","slug":"dentist-phobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbenatkins.co.uk\/dentist-phobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist Phobia"},"content":{"rendered":"
I believe that dentist phobia will eventually become a thing of the past. So it was sad to read this excellent article<\/a><\/strong> by Lucy Elkins for the Daily Mail Health Section. A young fashion model was traumatised by a wisdom tooth extraction, years ago.\u00a0As a result, she avoided\u00a0essential dental treatment for 12 years.<\/p>\n One of my fellow contributors to the article offered some sound reasons. Dr Rick Norris is a visiting consultant psychologist at Manor Hospital in Walsall who specialises in phobias. Interestingly, he says that dentist phobia can cause similar symptoms to post traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n Unsurprising that Nienke Van der Peet harboured this phobia over the years. In the article I comment on how better awareness of pain relief\u00a0would have helped her.<\/p>\nWhy dentist phobia?<\/h4>\n