Overcoming Your Dental Anxiety

This workbook offers seventeen exercises that are divided into sections representing various stages of dental anxiety management: Understanding Your Options as a Patient; Building a Relationship with Your Dentist; Using Coping Skills to Manage Your Dental Anxiety; and Taking Control at the Dentist.

Each exercise worksheet has four sections:

-The Objective states what you should expect to accomplish upon completing the worksheet.

-You Should Know offers background information about the issue(s) being addressed in the worksheet.

-What to Do features exercises to complete, including questions to answer, step-by-step directions to follow, and other activities.

-Reflections on This Exercise asks you to provide feedback on the worksheet, including rating how much the exercise helped you, and what you learned from it. This section enables you to determine whether the exercise should be a regular part of your dental anxiety management.

This workbook can benefit anyone seeking to build healthy coping skills to address their dental anxiety. Each worksheet is written in a manner that is practical, user-friendly, and easy to understand.