Even if people know they should get regular dental checkups, they don’t always do so. Motivated by dental fear, some will choose to keep putting off an appointment or even skip it entirely. However, this is completely unnecessary — whatever form their anxiety takes, patients have the power to overcome their misgivings with reliable reasons and practices.
Listed below is a summary of three fear-related reasons people avoid the dentist, including ways to overcome them. By reading it, you’ll find that dental practices aren’t scary at all!
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