Hypnosis used in dental procedure

July 10, 2010 in Health, Hypnotherapy by Noel

A dental patient underwent hypnosis to have two rotten teeth removed because he could not afford private treatment.

Leslie Mason was facing a £400 bill for the pro­cedure to be per­formed privately as his local surgery in Col­chester, Essex, had exhausted its NHS budget.

Mr Mason, 54, instead chose to play the role of guinea pig to a Hert­fordshire dentist’s unorthodox form of treatment, using hypnosis as the only painkiller.

The father-​​of-​​seven said: “It was incredible. I felt no pain at all.”

Mr Mason was put in contact with dentist Dr Bhavin Bhatt, by mutual friend John Rid­lington, a qualified hypnotist.

With the offer of free treatment he agreed to the pro­cedure per­formed at the Smile and Wellbeing dental practice in Bishop’s Stortford.

‘Mind over matter’

Mr Rid­lington, 59, from Dunmow in Essex, said: “We all have the ability to control pain with our brains.

Our brains control everything about our bodies and our sub­con­scious is the most powerful part — it controls our breathing and the blood pumping through our veins.

Hypnosis taps into the sub­con­scious mind. It’s all about mind over matter.”

Mr Rid­lington got Mr Mason into a relaxed state of mind and taught him to visualise his favourite pastime — historic battle re-​​enactments — to distract his mind from the pain.

Whilst wielding an ima­ginary medieval sword, Mr Mason visu­alised a dial numbered one to 10 — one for no pain and 10 for excru­ciating pain.

As soon as he felt a twinge he mentally turned the dial back to one.

100% effective

He remained con­scious throughout the two-​​hour pro­cedure and felt nothing more than “a bit of a sting”.

Mr Mason, a former farmhand, said: “It was incredible. There is no worse pain than that inflicted by dentists but I didn’t feel any.

The dentist had to dig away at the rotten roots that were right up into my jaw. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t have done under hypnosis now. It’s incredible.”

Dr Bhatt said: “The hypnosis was 100% effective.

With Leslie we used hyp­no­therapy to remove a ser­iously infected tooth and some deeply embedded roots. Ordinarily this would involve surgery and such cases are usually referred to hospital.

We’re now exploring the pos­sibility of offering tooth trans­plants under hypnosis.”

Mr Mason has pre­viously undergone hypnosis to quit his 40-​​a-​​day smoking habit.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/7433646.stm

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This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​01-​​07 13:34:53.

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