Dr. Shaila Patel-Buxton- Bupa Dental
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How common is dental anxiety?
So dental anxiety is really common. It's thought that it affects almost half of the adult population. It's about 4 in 10 people.
Who are you and what do you do?
Hi, I am Shaila. I'm a Bupa dentist, and I have a lot of experience in looking after nervous, anxious patients coming to the dentist, or patients who have a dental phobia.
Is there something a patient can do prior to a dentist appointment to help?
So before you come to the dentist, if you know that you are nervous or you are anxious, or you have a phobia about coming, that's really, really helpful. The more information you can actually give to us, the more we can work with it. So the first thing I'd say is please definitely let the dental team know. So either you let the receptionist know, which is probably the first port of call, or you let the nurse or the dentist know and then we can work with you to try and find a way to make you comfortable and make the treatment and the whole process, the whole journey, much more comfortable for you.