Monthly Webinar - Hypnosis for managing dental issues
Event Details
Members have free access to this event and will be sent the zoom link via the mailing list.
This monthly webinar takes place between 6 and 7.30pm.
We have three presenters: Mandy Kent, Samantha Crone and John Duthie.
Aim: The aim of this webinar is to explore how hypnosis can be used for managing dental issues.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore how different hypnotic strategies can be used in dental patients to reduce anxiety
2. Understand how hypnosis can be used for different dental issues such as gagging
3. Explore ways to use hypnotic techniques to help with trigeminal neuralgia
About This Webinar:
In this webinar Mandy Kent will talk about her experiences of using hypnosis for her dental patients and for specific dental issues. Samantha Crone will discuss some tips and techniques that she has used to manage a variety of dental issues. John Duthie will talk about a case of trigeminal neuralgia that incorporates various hypnotic strategies including glove anaesthesia and maximising the placebo effect of her drugs with an imaginary pill.
Mandy Kent qualified in Dentistry at The London Hospital in 1984. She worked in general practice, both NHS and privately until retiring in 2023. In 2014 she took the BSCAH year course in Clinical Hypnosis, to help her nervous patients accept dentistry.
She has trained with other organisations too. She offers hypnotherapy for dental and medical phobias such as needle phobia, gagging, tooth grinding, general dental anxiety, can help with hypno-anaesthesia and can attend dental appointments with a client to help with clinical hypnosis. She also helps with more general issues such as sleep problems, phobias such as claustrophobia and driving phobia and many other issues.
Dr Samantha Crone BDS MFDS RCS(Eng) Samantha graduated from St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1997, gaining a Batchelor of Dental Surgery degree (BDS) and subsequently gaining Membership to the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MFDS RCS(Eng)) in 2002, following further training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Samantha has worked in general and cosmetic dental practice, special care dentistry, hospital dentistry and surgery. Samantha also holds a post as a dento-alveolar surgeon with the Surrey Dento-Alveolar Referral Service and in recent years has been involved in training and mentoring post-graduate dentists. She is also qualified to provide non-surgical facial aesthetic treatments such as botulinum toxin injections and dermal fillers. Samantha trained in clinical hypnosis in her final year of dental school in 1996 and has successfully used hypnosis techniques throughout her career in dentistry. She has found hypnosis particularly useful in the treatment of anxious patients, those struggling with pronounced gag reflexes, needle phobias and dental phobias. She initially trained with The British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis London branch and is now an active member of BSCAH.
John Duthie BDS 1974 MGDS;RCS( Eng.)1985 qualified as a Dental Surgeon in 1974 and started his Foundation Training in hypnosis in 1975. He further honed his hypnosis skill at the Liverpool Dental Hospital in the late 1980s and early 90’s treating medically compromised and nervous patients requiring general anaesthetic and sedation. He used hypnosis as a tool to maximise the placebo effect and amplify the drug response to reduce complications and speed up treatment thus reducing waiting lists.
On the academic side, John was an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of GDP. He is also a Fellow of the College of the General Dentistry (FCGDent) and a Fellow of the International College of Dentists ( FICD )
Now retired, he believes that a failure to use hypnosis to enhance drug effects and the healing process is an act of omission and would like to pass on this enthusiasm on to younger working colleagues. To this end, he is starting a study group in Liverpool where participants can come to practice their skills and discuss cases as experience grows.