A review on the NLP techniques for reducing anxiety in dental phobic patients

Kwon,  Won-Dal; Seol,  Ki-Moon

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 48(11); 2010 > Article

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 2010;48(11):829-840.
Published online November 30, 2010.

치과 공포증환자의 불안 경감을 위한 NLP기법에 대한 고찰

권원달¹, 설기문²

^¹남대구 행복을 심는 치과/동방대학원대학교 자연치유학과
^²동방대학원대하교 자연치유학과

A review on the NLP techniques for reducing anxiety in dental phobic patients

Won-Dal Kwon¹, Ki-Moon Seol²

¹Namdaegu Happy Dental office / Dept. of Natural Healing Science, Dongbang Graduate University
²Dept. of Natural Healing Science, Dongbang Graduate University

Abstract

In recent years, medical techniques have provided patients with various measures to improve their quality of life. For dental treatment, drug-mediated sedation techniques for relieving dental anxiety have been developed, but behavior control through drugmediation may be limited because of possible side effects, contraindications, and the additional expense to the patient. Many patients tend to avoid the treatment or are unwilling to accept it and this makes both patients and dentists feel pressured. The field of NLP application might alleviate this uncomfortableness. Recently, NLP has spread to the dental and medical field rapidly and has been used in surgical treatments as well as in direct psychotherapy. NLP techniques which could be applied to dental phobic patients are as follows. 1) anchoring, 2) dissociation, 3) submodality change, 4) time line threapy, 5) swish pattern, 6) six step reframing, 7) parts integration, 8) modeling and imagination and so on. The aim of this study is to examine the strategy of NLP psychology so that dental phobic patients can be treated efficiently and effectively by the application of behavior management. Through NLP, patients can be induced to have more positive attitudes and experiences in future dental treatment.

Key Words: NLP;Dental anxiety;Sedation;