Have No Fear of the Dental Chair! A Guide for Reducing Dental Fear by Susan R. Cushing DMD Paperback

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Have No Fear of the Dental Chair: A Guide for Reducing Dental Fear is a Dental Guide written to answer questions you have about dental anxiety. It is designed to offer you options currently available and a "road map" for finding them. This book allows those with dental anxiety to identify their specific fears and to feel understood, validated and hopeful that they can do something about it. It offers confirmation that you are not alone and that there are dentists who understand and care about what you go through and want to help you overcome whatever has blocked you. The many personal stories shared in this book can offer you renewed hope and inspiration. By learning how others have overcome their dental fear can give you confidence that you too can be relieved of your fear of the dental chair. Additionally, you will find a multitude of suggestions and possibilities that you may have been unaware of that can help minimize and alleviate the fears that are stopping you from going to the dentist. The stories are "real world" and revealing. They show how you too can change your personal experiences during your next dental visit. This book will enlighten all readers on the "reality" of dental anxiety and highlights dental terms and definitions that some of you may have heard of but never quite understood. The goal is to help explain the essence of the fear that you, your friends and/or your loved ones may have regarding dental anxiety and to empower you to be proactive and ask specific questions of your dentist and other dental professionals. Dr. Susan R. Cushing graduated Cum Laude from Boston College and went on to earn her DMD degree from Tufts University Dental School in Boston, Massachusetts.

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and commitment that went into training Susan to be the wonderful dentist that she is, June 17, 2016
By Curt on Cape Cod

Let me start this review by telling you that I am the husband of Susan Cushing, the author. So maybe some of you are thinking, “Oh right, really unbiased, NOT!” What I want to tell you about is that I have seen firsthand all the years of dedicated study, effort, and commitment that went into training Susan to be the wonderful dentist that she is. I was there when she took her first baby steps in learning how to serve the segment of the dental population that is so afraid of the dentist that the blood drains from their cheeks when someone mentions getting dental treatment. I watched and listened over the years as she sought to pay forward the kindness that she received from the first dentist that took the time to help a scared little child deal with painful, crippling fear of the dentist. She has spent a life time slowly learning and accumulating the techniques she lays out in her book for both the patient and the dentist. The hope is that the patient will be able to receive the dental treatment they need to stay healthy and the stress of treating these patients will be reduced for the dentist and their staff. Being a silent observer over the years means that I have heard dentists talk about how stressful it really is to have these fearful patients be a part of the dentist’s practice. I know how stressed the staff of the dentist become when they see the name of a fearful patient in the schedule. I know how much lost productivity there is when those same fearful patients fail to keep their appointment or cancel at the last minute. Using the techniques laid out in Have No Fear of the Dental Chair! A Guide For Reducing Dental Fear is intended to help both sides of the equation. I hope you gain knowledge and understanding from reading this book.

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Dental phobics take heart; you don't have to fear ..., May 06, 2016
By nancy edwards

Dental phobics take heart; you don't have to fear going to the dentist anymore! Dr. Cushing understands the fear that going to a dentist can precipitate; she felt the very same way herself as a child. She has made it her mission to help patients overcome their dental anxieties, and is quite successful, as this patient discovered.
This book describes multiple methods for reducing patient fears. It explains dental terms and modalities- anesthetics used for pain prevention, pain management techniques, nitrous oxide, non IV oral sedation, hypnosis, and neurolinguistic programming (NLP). She mentions ways a patient can stay in control and methods of reducing anxiety.
Dental professionals may also find this book helpful, particularly the section on NLP. Having taken a NLP course myself, as a medical professional at first I thought that NLP was more hocus pocus than scientific, but the fact remains that NLP can be an extremely helpful addition to incorporate into your dental practice because it works.
This is a practical guide and should help many people to realize freedom from dental anxiety

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