DENTAL NEWS: Does the sound of a dental drill freak you out to the point where you avoid going to the dentist even though you need to go?
Well, there's good news as a new hand-held device known as "The Dental Button" that allows dental patients to press a button to immediately stop the dentist's drill to relieve pain or just calm the nerves.
"You have no control, you have people leaning over you. It's almost primal. Your throat is exposed," says Philadelphia dentist Dr. Jerald Matt who uses the Dental Button.
This device can help calm patients suffer from anxiety causing them to hold their breath, tremble and fidget in the dentist’s chair. Whether they suffer from a little anxiety or intense fear, the dental button puts control of the drill in the hands of the patient as a dentist cannot continue drilling until the patient resets the system.
This control puts people like Joann Bay-Dee, a patient of Dr. Matt, more at ease when normally she can hardly sleep the night before a dental appointment.
"I had control over the instrument," said Bay-Dee who only stopped the drill twice during her routine appointment.
"When someone is more relaxed and they're breathing easier, things go more efficiently," said Dr. Matt, adding that the button didn’t interfere with his work.
The company that manufactures the Dental Button, m2partnership (that's what it calls itself according to its website), is not without marketing savvy as the company's website enables visitors to locate a dentist who uses this product in their practice. Click Here to see which dentists in your area use The Dental Button.
DENTAL VIEWS: I can't help wondering how much "fun" the Dental Button is for the dentist. Could you imagine trying to work out a patient who is stopping the drill every 10 seconds? I can... and that's why I'm not a dentist. Well, that and the fact that I'm too lazy to go to dental school.
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