Observations of Dr. Michael Leu and his team of specialists
Since we are leader in the gentle treatment of dental phobia patients we have a giant treasure of experience. Here you can find some of most important personal observations and discoveries summed up from Dr. Leu® and his team. They show the importance and the positive effect of the 3 Appointment Therapy.
Patient and doctor
- In a usual dental practise a strong fear patient is not immediately recognised and therefore he or she is treated like a normal patient.
- In the special practice for strong anxious patients the dentist knows from the very beginning that the patients in front of him have particularly high expectation about his empathic competences.
- Almost every strong anxious patient goes to the first appointment T1 very stressed and with an incredible self-control!
- The patient can maintain his self control as long as the dentist during the conversation act and react in an empathic, psychosomatic and respectful way.
- Extreme anxious patients almost always contact us when their life quality has been dramatically worsened.
- It is alarmingly how many patients say to have thought about suicide.
- Know-it-all and superior behaviour of the dentists are an absolute No-Go.
- The dentist should be able to motivate.
Dental phobia through Traumas
- Dental phobia through Traumas
- Almost all our extremely anxious patients tell our assistants during the preliminary talk / PRE-T1 or during the consultation T1 about terrible, traumatic dentist experiences in childhood and think about them as the origin of their dentist fear.
- Many patients had root treatments and think that this was the beginning of their extreme fear of the dentist.
- The predominant population majority – including dentists – do not know the difference between dental fear and dental phobia.
- We have the impression that extreme dental fear is not much a „mental disorder“ but more a post traumatic stress disorder after horrible and traumatic dentist treatments – especially in childhood.
- It is often said that school dentist from the former DDR are the cause of an extreme dental fear.
Positive Effects of the 3 Appointment Therapy
- Many patients do not have the usual pains and swellings after the surgery under general anaesthesia (T2). The do not feel like they would have had a very large treatment.
- Many patients with an extreme feeling of sickness and nausea loose it immediately after the third appointment / T3.
- Patients who have been treated with the 3 Appointment Therapy can often have afterwards again a normal dental treatment. This effect is probably bound to our conversational technique and the particular training of our assistants and colleagues.