CONVERSATIONAL HYPNOSIS IN DENTISTRY
Swapnadeep Pannu, Saima Khan, Anuroop Singhai, Fareedi Mukram Ali*,Neha Singh, Shashank Gaur
ABSTRACT
Modifying patient behavior in order to deliver good dental care has
remained a major issue over the years. And today being the era of
integrative medicine, all efforts need to be made to combine traditional
medicine with alternative to optimize dental care. Conversational
hypnosis is just such a technique which maybe used effectively in
dental practice to bypass the conscious barriers and achieve instant
rapport with the subconscious mind of the patient. As it is an attempt
to communicate with the patient’s unconscious mind without him
noticing and often takes place in the course of a seemingly regular conversation, it is termed
conversational hypnosis. Erikson H. Milton who is considered the father of conversational
hypnosis developed this effective therapeutic technique which though not explicitly hypnotic,
really combined extensions of hypnotic strategies and language patterns which came to be
popularized as the ‘Milton Model’. The aim of this article is to view this technique
objectively, demystify it, and try and derive whatever benefit that can be gained from it in
daily dental practice.
Keywords: Modifying patient behavior, subconscious, communicate, Conversational hypnosis. Milton Model.
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