Patients with dental anxiety sometimes assume that all dentists are sadists who devote their time exclusively to figuring out how to make their patients squirm. While this is the image that sometimes shows up in pop culture, it couldn’t be any further from the truth!
Dentists spend a lot of time thinking about how to make their patients comfortable. In fact, they even think about how the art in their office can be used to put people at ease. If you want to know how that works, here’s a brief tour of the interesting world of dental art.
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