The pandemic proved disruptive both to communities and businesses. It was also disruptive to business practices. Dentistry, in particular, was hard hit.
Patients forwent care, and the anxieties associated with fear of COVID-19 exacerbated the fears that dentistry-phobic individuals experienced. Hypnosis can be a highly effective adjuvant to dental practice when one is attempting to overcome the fears that interfere with proper care. Distancing protocols, however, would appear to render using hypnosis problematic even when dentist-patient interactions resumed.
Nevertheless, experience with inducing the hypnotic state through remote electronic means makes it possible to usher patients through dental interventions successfully. The presentation will provide strategies for using a hypnotic state induced from a remote location through electronic means to achieve meaningful positive patient outcomes. here will also be an introduction to conveying the benefits of hypnosis to dentists and overcoming their fears and anxieties, hypno- analgesia and practice.
Presenter
Sharon Waxkirsh
Sharon Waxkirsh BaHons CHT, MHT, HBCE, studied with Gil Boyne and Dr. John Butler over a decade ago. Based in Indiana, where she has her own school online and in person, The Academy for Hypnosis. She has lectured for the ACHE and other conferences world-wide.