We begin with the question does music calm anxiety in the dental clinic? Well, it may be a matter of taste and preference. Personally, I cannot see or hear a truck load of death metal or rap music soothing my worries in the chair but each to his own I say. Dentists and orthodontists’ music: What calms patients’ anxiety? Ambient muzak is most often served up in these situations, as fodder for the frayed nerves of the dental patient. Something to combat the high-powered whine of the electric drill, as it screams its way inside your head. What are the favourite tracks of torturers? This comes to mind in this particular search for the truth.
I Doubt If Any Soothing Music Can Calm in These Circumstances
During invasive surgery such as dental implants will the sounds of gently crashing waves and whale cries invoke a sense of peace? I ponder whether the breathy whistles of South American pan pipes can nullify the bloody gurgling extraction of a molar? In fact, as I sit here contemplating my memories of dental surgeries, I doubt if any soothing music can match the gore and stabbing nature of this business. Today, we use terms like ‘invasive surgery’ to sterilise the bloody truth of the matter at hand. Our mouths are intimate places, usually, reserved for mastication and sensual pleasures. In the hands of dentists, they become war zones, where collateral damage occurs on the journey to oral hygiene.
I Worry About Dentists & Abattoir Workers
Marketing the gentler aspects of dental work is a full-time job to overcome the realities of such a bloody and painful profession. I worry about people who work in abattoirs and I worry about dentists. I am concerned about their proclivity toward blood and violence. This leads me back to the question concerning dentists and orthodontists’ music: What calms patients’ anxiety? Perhaps, the muzak is played more for their own benefit than for the patients in the chair?
Some music like nightclub music doesn’t suit the content and I pity the patient exposed to the beat of such noxious rumblings whilst strapped in the chair. We all know the experience of having hands down your throat holding instruments of sharp torture. Imagine this to the soundtrack of Tin Machine or Megadeth? I pity the victims of deranged dentists, those that have crossed the Rubicon of common decency and found themselves in the realms of Nazi concentration camps.