Stress in the dental office.

Stress is endemic and epidemic in today's fast-paced world, and dentists are not immune. While stressors are particular to the individual, some factors potentially causing stress in the dental office are economic conditions, difficult patients, inherent personality traits and physical constraints.

Habits of highly effective dentists.

While stress is pervasive in the world today, and particularly in the dental office, coping strategies can counteract it. This paper discusses the personality features of the hardy dentist; the fact that stress and its effects depend largely on individual perception of stressors; and five habits to develop for stress reduction: seeking information, taking direct action, inhibiting action, engaging intrapsychic efforts and calling on others.

Multidisciplinary treatment of dental phobia.

Using contributions from different schools of psychotherapy provides a range of treatment options for the complex needs of dental fear patients. A single case study of a severely phobic patient explores the advantages of the team approach, strategies of fear reduction and the evolution of a patient coping with the symptoms of dental phobia.