Fear-Free Dental Care: Finding a Dentist You Can Love

Are you afraid of going to the dentist? If so, you’re not alone. More than 80 percent of Dr. Scott Shamblott’s patients experience at least some degree of dental anxiety or fear. Some even suffer from a more serious condition: dental phobia, a legitimate condition suffered by millions of people in the U.S. and around the world.

For those affected, it can feel like a bottomless pit of despair from which there is no escape. Yet many who once suffered from dental phobia have found a way out: fear-free dental care.

In Fear-Free Dental Care, Dr. Scott Shamblott introduces a unique approach to dentistry that puts the patient and patients’ needs front and center. Dentists who practice fear-free dental care focus on creating a kinder, gentler experience that makes it possible for even the most fearful of us to get the dental care we need—and deserve.

Based upon nearly three decades of practice at Shamblott Family Dentistry where Dr. Shamblott specializes in helping anxious patients, Fear-Free Dental Care walks you through the steps to finding a dentist you can love. You’ll learn how to fight fear with knowledge, what qualities to look for in a fear-free dentists, proven techniques for staying calm, your rights and responsibilities and more.

If you’re afraid of dentists, you owe it to yourself to read this book.