Dental Fears & Phobias - Easing Patient Anxiety While Reducing Yours

Course overview

At least ten percent of the population has some degree of dental anxiety or phobia. This course aims to empower dental professionals to effectively support fearful and anxious patients, thereby reducing practitioners risk of compassion fatigue and burnout. Patients who are fearful or anxious generate stress for the dental team. In turn, this compromises the ability to deliver quality care, affects workflow and can contribute to patient errors. This course discusses models and techniques for effectively responding to stressful patients and staving off stress contagion, emotional exhaustion, burnout, compassion fatigue and other threats that compromise quality of patient care and the emotional and physical health of the dental professional.