Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
June 2012
Print ISSN:
1470-855
Vol:
13
Issue:
2

Case reports: the use of a psychological technique for the treatment of severe gag treatment

Doi: 10.4483/JDOH_008Newton04

Abstract This article examines a simple behavioural management technique which allows treatment to be carried out on patients with a severe gag reflex. The technique involves using a marble to desensitise the patient’s gag reflex by encountering a graded exposure to a foreign body within the mouth. It presents three cases where treatment was completed successfully without recourse to pharmacological methods of anxiety/behaviour control, but involved fixed end removable prosthodontic treatments which normally pose a severe problem to those patients with an overactive gag reflex.

Key words: Oral Gag reflex,behavioural management technique, dentistry

Article Price
£15.00
Institution Article Price
£
Page Start
67
Page End
70
Authors
Tim Newton, Robert Emanuel

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