Hypnosis – Dr

What is hypnosis?

Do you remember an activity that you carried out with the greatest concentration, where you forgot time and environment, everything? This may have happened to you at work, during a long drive, while jogging, in a concert or during an exciting reading. Then you were surprised at how quickly time had passed because you had experienced something “like in a trance”!

Surely you will also remember moments when someone looked through you with a “fixed gaze”: this “tunnel gaze” not only signals a trance-like state, it is also a biologically necessary resting phase for humans.

The characteristic feature of hypnosis is the trance, i.e. a changed state of consciousness and definitely what is called an “everyday phenomenon”. It enables perceptions that are fundamentally different from those they experience in a conscious, normal state.

How does one react under hypnosis?

The depth and duration of a trance can be determined by the hypnotist. There are characteristic signs of development and deepening in the patient: The pulse slows down, the breathing rate becomes calmer, blood pressure is lowered, movements become more economical, voice quality changes and muscles are relaxed. This prevents anxiety and cramps. Access to the treatment area is made easier and your dentist can work precisely, quickly and with concentration.

The patient can put himself in a comfortable emotional position. The feeling for temporal relationships is often lost, so that even relatively long-lasting treatments are perceived as pleasantly short by the patient.

Actually, today discomfort or fear of visits to the dentist are superfluous. Modern dentistry offers treatment methods and materials that can be used to make almost any dental therapy as pleasant as possible. Nevertheless, there are both small and adult patients who fear nothing more than to find their way into the dental practice. Hypnosis can offer an opportunity to make it easier for such patients to visit the dentist.

The task of a dental hypno-therapist is to provide his patients with an unencumbered situation and thus a relaxed treatment. In a trance state, the rational part of the brain “switches off”, the patient “thinks” in pictures. He is responsive, but he experiences the necessary dental measures not only pleasantly relaxed, but almost always painless.

Tasks and possibilities

The trance state or hypnosis is used both in general medicine and specifically in surgery as well as increasingly in dental treatments.

Hypnosis procedures can be used to treat patients who are particularly anxious or tense before or during dental treatment:

  • react with above-average sensitivity, or have not dared to go to a practice for some time.
  • I can’t stand normal narcotics.
  • Hypno-therapy is particularly suitable for patients who suffer from severe gag reflex and
  • as an accompanying measure for painful jaw joint complaints and tension in the masticatory musculature.

Most people are hypnotizable. Especially helpful are intelligence, the ability to concentrate and a pictorial imagination. Exceptions are in any case mentally ill people as well as alcohol and drug addicts.

Methods of hypnosis

Certain techniques have been developed for hypnosis, which your hypnotherapeutic dentist calls “induction techniques”. This is an introductory phase in which your dentist adjusts to your individual behaviour such as breathing rhythm or the situations you experience as relaxing.

In the leadership phase, he leads you therapeutically purposefully into the desired trance state. Basically, all trance introductions are based on fixing the patient’s attention on a certain object (e.g. light or a certain point) or directing your concentration, for example, to a hand in order to switch off conscious processes.

Many hypnotherapeutic dentists use special music CDs with special suggestively effective texts, which the patient receives via headphones during the treatment. For a simple relaxation or trance, it is often even possible to use music that the patient may bring along himself.

No more prejudices!

Wrong:

In spite of increasing information in the media such as television and radio, certain prejudices persist. “The hypnotic state is a kind of deep sleep in which one does not perceive anything”, or “in trance every human being is willless”, are only two false examples. Forget such prejudices. It is true that the patient does not become “willless” in any way. He is busy with his inner, personal interests and will only express things he really wants to reveal. It is also true that in the USA, Sweden, Canada and many other countries of the world, hypnosis has been used in dental practices for decades.

That’s right, I did:

It is true that hypno-therapy can only be used responsibly by dentists after qualified theoretical and practical additional training. In Germany, many hypnotically active dentists have joined together in the DGZH (German Society for Dental Hypnosis). They will also be happy to tell you which dentist in your area has undergone further training and uses hypnosis.

Dentist Dr. Christian Schmid, Sigraser Str. 14, 92265 Edelsfeld in the Upper Palatinate, Tel. 09665 / 95 0 93

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