Please Note:  Important message!

Through headphones, while in the dental chair,
 dental patients use Relaxed Dental Visits audio CDs.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Relaxed Dental Visits relaxation program is meant to be played in dental offices/surgeries only through a patient’s personal headphones. The relaxation audio program CDs intentionally provide effective methods of deep relaxation and may induce deep relaxation in you and your office staff.  Never drive, or operate ANY kind of machinery (including dental tools), while listening to hypnosis or self-hypnosis programs.

Benefits for Dentists

Dentist Info:  This program includes self-hypnosis information and relaxation.  Suggestions include increased benefit of the topical gel's numbing effect, and offers relaxed breathing and focusing techniques to use before and during the injection.  (Special note to Dentist - For the patient to benefit and feel prepared for the injection, the patient must listen to audio tape for SIX minutes before the patient receives the injection!)

How can you help your patient to feel prepared, safe,

and in control while in your chair?

These seven simple steps suggest ways you can help your patients start relaxing early on, and keep relaxing during their appointments with you:

1. Dental patients look to you as an 'Authority figure', giving extra weight to the words you speak.  Patients (including very intelligent people) can experience 'brain fog' caused by the chemical surge of their autonomic fight or flight response to fear/anxiety.  Explaining procedures in clear and simple terms may enable them to ask the questions which can help them to feel more secure and relaxed.
    

2. Speaking with your patient before the audio program begins helps your patient to feel prepared, and feel more in control.  Clarify the steps of the dental procedure the patient requires including if, or how many injection(s) will be necessary.
    

3. Review with your patient the three hand signals used within Relaxed Dental Visits -
          1.   patient's hand held palm up near mouth means - STOP! Pause now, please!
          2.   tapping on the patient's shoulder means you wish to talk with him/her
          3.   tapping on the patient's chin means you would like him/her to relax his/her
                  mouth wider open, once again.
   (Once your patient begins listening to the audio program, the patient will close his/her eyes.  With eyes closed, your patient attention may be focused deeply elsewhere.  A reply may be delayed, or you may need to repeat a question.)
    

4. Apply topical analgesic and leave on the patient's gums for a minimum of three minutes, as per manufacturer's instructions, to achieve the maximum physical and mental numbing effects.  Within the program the patient hears a suggestion to notice today, the greatly increased numbing effects of the topical analgesic.
    

5. Clarify details about any injection while you are administering the topical analgesic is very helpfully reduces patient apprehension.  When you clearly explain about the injection in advance, you allow the patient to remain listening, undisturbed, to the audio program, DURING the injection itself.  Allowing the patient to continue listening to the program during the injection results in noticeably reducing patient anxiety.  When it's time to give the injection touch a patient's shoulder, just to check that he/she feels comfortable and ready.  With patient's eyes still closed, say something like: "If you feel ready now, just nod your head, and open your mouth."  "It is just fine for you to keep your eyes closed, and remain relaxed, while you continue listening to the CD."  This type of calm 'leading' talk helps reduce worries and fears.
    

6. PLEASE TIME IT! - SIX MINUTE INJECTION DELAY REQUIRED!  Wait SIX minutes from when the patient begins listening to the program before administering the injection.  (THIS IS KEY TO THE PATIENT FEELING SAFE AND ABLE TO COPE EFFECTIVELY WITH FEAR OR ANXIETY re: INJECTIONS!  At 5 min 30 seconds the dental patient has progressed to the slow deep breathing technique to use THROUGHOUT THE INJECTION.)  If the patient loses focus during the injection, say something reassuring like, "That's all done.  You can just close your eyes and relax now".
   
   After completing your patient's dental work, tap him/her on the shoulder, signaling the dental work's completion.  (As appropriate, you can advise when the next appointment should be booked, or your patient may have a question for you.)
    

7. Give your patient a sense of completion and wellbeing by beginning the final audio track for him/her, before he/she leaves the dental chair.  Say something simple like... "I look forward to seeing you next visit.  To complete your audio session, just listen to this three minute closing track.  After the closing track completes, please come out to the reception desk.  Enjoy these last few minutes for yourself, listening to these encouraging, refreshing, uplifting thoughts.
   
   

   You can increase your patient's relaxation focus -

    

   To assist your patient in benefiting from the relaxation within the audio program, keep conversations to a minimum.  Remember after speaking with your patient, that you can assist him/her in relaxing quickly once again, by stating...  "If you close your eyes, and inhale and exhale slowing a few times now...  you can feel relaxed again, very quickly."

Benefits for Dental Hygienists

Dental Hygienist's patients can benefit from deep relaxation.

See fewer 'white knuckle' patients!

Dental Hygienists:  Patient appointments may be a short 15 minutes.  Each program's introductory tracks include self-hypnosis, relaxation information, and affirmations.  The patient hears encouraging suggestions to focus on the personal benefits of dental self care and wellness, including booking and appreciating professional dental care.

 
Relaxed Dental Visits 4 CD set audio relaxation programs work effectively without the need for you to become a hypnotist.

The following program content applies to both programs...

The Relaxed Dental Visits audio programs give you:

• factual, natural and realistic relaxation information.

• balanced breathing and progressive muscle relaxation techniques.

• helpful relaxation suggestions (which you can direct and control).

• enjoyable stories you can use to feel relaxed in the dental chair.

• rewarding and enjoyable guided visualizations.

• encouraging and uplifting new ideas for feeling calm during your dental visit.

• encouraging affirmations for personal and dental wellness.

• demonstrations using your natural ability to CHOOSE, and then FEEL relaxed at any time, regardless of your surroundings.

Additional benefits include...

• does more than just relax patients.

• patients choose and take control of their own self-hypnosis session.

• patients intentionally direct their thoughts internally to extend self-hypnosis.

• human are unable to remain in self-hypnosis without intending to do so.

• all self-hypnosis programs contain helpful encouraging suggestions. 

• stories and metaphors which promote the feeling of freedom and appreciation for dental self care and wellness.

• program messages encourage patients to associate benefits and rewards with dental care.

• freedom from associating pain with dental care.

• patients hear encouraging ideas and praise for booking and keeping dental appointments.

• patients feel encouraged to develop a personal motivation in improving their dental wellness.

• using guided visualizations patients feel helped by involving their thoughts in stories designed to make them feel better.

• patients experience the feeling of relaxation while in the dental chair.

Relaxed Dental Visits - Dental & Dental Hygienist CD Sets

Dentist's office set - 4 individual entertaining and informative CDs - including reassuring, supportive, calming relaxation suggestions, progressive muscle relaxation, visualizations, plus smooth breathing/focusing techniques to use before/during injections, and more!

Dental Hygienist set - 4 individual entertaining and informative CDs - including soothing, comforting relaxation techniques, suggestions for pro-active dental care, beneficial compliance and uplifting personal and dental wellness affirmations.

Dentists and Dental Hygienists: While providing expert dental care for your patients, have you personally noticed or dealt with these  challenges? ?

• patients (often using excuses) fearfully avoiding booking or keeping appointments.

• you compassionately care about your patients, and you provide modern painless dental care.  However, are you seen as or associated with someone who heartlessly inflicts pain?

• fearful patients delay quality dental care intending to avoid pain.  Patients may be overlooking the fact that delaying dental care causes more pain, more expense, and the need to perform more complicated procedures. 

• We understand why patients avoid early or preventative dental care... past unpleasant dental experiences haunt them.

• patients feel guilty after practising poor dental hygiene, and become consumed with fear, expecting to hear personal criticism.

• you do challenging and meticulous work- perfectly performing a technical procedure identically with each patient can still produce variable results.  Patient's DNA, sensitivity levels, history of nutrition, physical oral health, and tooth strength or softness, all effect your work.

• patients bring their personal and dental fears, worries and stresses to your office - and share them with you!

• your work would be more enjoyable if your white knuckle patients could 'relax'

• patients sometimes remain focused on useless past painful dental experiences.  They associate these memories with you. 

• you feel powerless, unable to assist all your patients in reducing their anxieties.

• your patients feel vulnerable, immobilized, or 'out of control' - triggered by dental sights, smell and sounds which feel unfamiliar, unwanted, and outside their 'comfort zone'.

Dental Hygienists: providing the best of dental care for your patients...

Patients with gum sensitivity, and poor dental hygiene may present special challenges for you.

Dental Hygienist patient appointments may be as short as 15 minutes, and the set up of the audio programs includes helpful thoughts and progressive muscle relaxation, right away. 

 
Relaxed Dental Visits suggests calming relaxation using self-hypnosis.  Optimistic and encouraging affirmations and ideas re-enforce valuing personal and professional dental care and wellness.

For many patients simply suggesting they close their eyes and listen to the program allows them to relax.  Confident, encouraging, respectful ideas free listeners to relax and appreciate themselves just as they are, while easily imagining booking and keeping future dental care appointments.

The Relaxed Dental Visits audio program's content suggests feeling calm, confident and relaxed during dental appointments.  The program encourages patients to choose to take care of their teeth, to be well.

 For specific questions regarding program content,
we invite you to call  1 (866) 969 4054

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Relaxed Dental Visits

(subsidiary of A Brighter Choice Inc.)

PO Box 31060  Bridgeland RPO  Calgary, AB  T2E 9A3

Phone Toll FREE: 1 (866) 969 4054   9am-6pm MST

E-mail:  Info@RelaxedDentalVisits.com