What Every Dentist Should Know About Managing Dental Anxiety – PDP050

When Mike Gow first told me that he helped place dental implants on patients WITHOUT local anaesthetic, I thought he was lying. Then I found out they have also done a sinus lift without LA...what?! You read that correctly! Mike Gow has centred his practice around the management of nervous and anxious patients. Don't you think we can learn so much about management of dental anxiety from someone who has achieved the above? This is exactly why I brought him on as my guest of honour for Episode 50 (50 not out!) and you will love this, gem-packed podcast with valuable ways to help us become better Dentists to anxious patients. https://youtu.be/dkMByGXwI1A Full episode with Dr Mike Gow only on Protrusive and Dentinal Tubules Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! The Protrusive Dental Pearl is to check out Anydesk (it's free!) to gain remote access to your work computer in a secure way, so you can access X-rays and treatment plans any time, from any where! This has helped me on so many occassions! Also check out the 1 hour free training on Teeth Whitening by Dr Payman Langroudi of Enlighten Smiles. https://youtu.be/jO0bIetHLtY We discuss: How and why he found himself in a situation to hypnotise patients and place implants without LAMythbusting about Inhalation SedationTop tips in making patient feels calm and cared for (gold)Gow Gates vs Akinosi - which ID Block alternative is better?How to have a thriving practice centered on anxious patientsThe powerful secrets of managing dental anxiety https://youtu.be/uqiXh6QUjXw Inhalation Sedation is massively underutilised https://youtu.be/LevjbyjOTIM Hypnosis is powerful! Mike's resources as promised: ISDAM Website ISDAM Facebook page His practice, the Berkeley Clinic And of course, Mike on the news!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04uduXkYJ0 Dr Mike Gow also runs InterDental TV for the latest in Dentistry. If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like Dr Libi's 2 episodes on Paediatric Dentistry! Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: I see myself like, cocktail waiter, okay? The patient presents and tells me what kind of you know we work on what kind of thing is needed. And now it's up to me to decide how much of this is going to be pharmacological, how much behavioral, how much technological, and we make this mixture that's unique to that person... Jaz's Introduction: Managing anxious patients is not only one of the most difficult things in dentistry, and sometimes they can be very stressful encounters, but they are actually some of the most rewarding experiences sometimes this defines us as dentists, a dentist who cares, attentive who can really give people hope. People lose hope. And that's part of the anxiety. They won't know if they will get along with you. But they won't know these patients. If they can never trust another dentist again, they're too scared of pain. They're too scared of just general dentistry. And I think if you could master the art of treating the anxious patient, you will be so so so busy, profitable, or more important, your value and your sort of self worth as dentists and enjoyment and fulfillment can really really increase and that's why out today on this episode, Protruserati, PDP050, 50 Episode 50 raising my bat. Thank you so much for sticking with me all the way to 50 episodes. I've got an amazing person. This clinician, Dr. Mike Gow, if you've ever met him, I met him in Switzerland course few months ago in , this guy is just something else like, Here I am, right? I'm placing local anesthetic, sometimes when I'm placing retraction cord, right? So I take the temporary crown off. And I need to get scanner impression to go to a definitive crown for example, and I'm placing local anesthetic for retraction cord. Yeah, I'll put my hand up. I do that sometimes. Right? Where as this guy, Okay, Dr Mike Gow.