Dental anxiety
Dr. Lizzio has extensive experience treating adults with severe dental anxiety who have avoided regular care for years. It is one of the most common reasons people find this practice, and nobody here will make you feel foolish about it.
One sentence on the phone changes the whole appointment. We allow more time and we plan it differently.
The first visit can be a conversation and a look, with no instruments and no treatment. Plenty of people need that first.
An agreed signal to stop, breaks whenever you want them, and no treatment that has not been explained and agreed.
Most of the fear is of the unknown. Written plans, explained in advance, take a surprising amount of it away.
Nitrous oxide or oral sedation are both available for any appointment. How they work.
Not spending the whole day dreading it makes a genuine difference. Ask for the first slot.
Said honestly
People arrive here having not sat in a dental chair for ten or fifteen years, often embarrassed about the state of their teeth. It is more common than you would think, and it is not what we are judging.
One thing worth knowing: it almost never looks as bad to us as it does to you. We are looking at what can be fixed and in what order, not keeping score.
Questions
Everyone who says that has said it to a dentist who has heard it many times that month. It changes nothing about how you will be treated here.
Yes. Call and ask. You can see the rooms and meet the team without an appointment being made for anything.
Of course, into the room if you want them there.
Then we stop. We agree a hand signal before we start, and it is honoured every time. Being able to stop is most of what makes it bearable.
Nitrous oxide and oral sedation.
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The appointment that prevents the other eight.
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Pain, a fracture or a crown that came off.
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Saving a tooth whose nerve has died.
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The first appointment is an examination and a conversation. There is no obligation to book treatment at the end of it.