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Would be able to himself him that one day the dentists distribute the essential oil of lavender in their waiting room to calm their anxious patients?

It is what a British searcher who noted suggests that this oil, used in aromatherapy, reduced the symptoms of anxiety felt exactly by the patients before their appointment.

After having installed a distributor of essential oils in the waiting room of a dental clinic, one submitted two questionnaires to a total of 340 patients, whose half has been exposed to the odors of the lavender oil.

Result: those that had not had the right to the aromatherapy displayed a degree of anxiety equivalent to 10,7, on a scale taking into account the two questionnaires, compared to 7,4 for the patients having inhaled the exhalations of lavender.

This calming effect was only audible some minutes after the exhibition to the essential oil of lavender. And that, no matter the nature of the appointment: oral cleaning, stopping of caries, extraction of tooth…

According to Metaxia Kritsidima, the survey that it directed is applicable insofar as the anxiety felt by a patient is not only stressful for it, but also for the medical team.

" To work in a context of tension can compromise the performance of the dentist or his/her/its team, in addition to lengthen the times of waiting", she/it sustains.

It is why she/it believes that the dentists could add the aromatherapy to the other methods that they use to pacify their patients, of which the hypnotherapy.

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