An estimated 60 million Americans are afraid of dental procedures. It's a phobia that keeps them from getting tooth care they need.
Now, some dentists are taking a new approach to calm people down.
Dr. Ed Staffel, a dentist in San Antonio, has helped develop a system called "Nucalm."
It's a narcotic free approach to keeping you mellow.
First, patients take chewable tablets of amino acids.
Then the patient is attached to a mild electrical current that promotes relaxation.
Third, the patient wears sunglasses to block out light and headphones that play a subtle embedded beat that lowers the brain activity.
"All of these four things combined drop that patient down into an alpha state and they will stay there for the entire treatment in the dental chair," Staffel explains.
The developer of the process says Nuclam works on about 95-percent of patients.
From: OzarksFirst
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