HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN some music with you to a potentially stressful situation? Maybe an airplane ride, if you don’t like flying.
Isn’t it great? Music allows you to go into your own little world while the bustle fades into the background. Many dental professionals recommend that those with dental anxiety should bring an MP3 player to their appointments. In fact, music has even been shown to reduce people’s pain response.
And that’s just normal music!
Here at our practice, we’ve taken the powerful relaxing effect of music to the next level, with our NuCalm system.
How The Music Helps
1. The special headphones cancel out anxiety-triggering sounds, like the drill.
2. We use soft soundtracks that encourage relaxation.
3. Special binaural beats in the music bring your brainwaves into the alpha frequencies of relaxation and meditation.
How Binaural Beats Work
Alright, this science is really cool, so listen up:
In the 1830’s, a German physicist named H.W. Dove created something called binaural beats. In this system, music is played at a slightly different frequency into each ear. This makes you hear a subtle beat or pulse in the background, which is the two different frequencies synching and then separating, synching and separating.
This creates a third frequency, which your brain starts following, entraining your brain waves into their alpha state—the same state the you hit when you’re about to drift off to sleep. You can learn more about binaural beats here.
Try A Sample Of Binaural Beat Music
This isn’t the exact same music we use for our NuCalm system, but it’s a great example of binaural beats, and it’s certainly relaxing.
Music Is One Of Four Steps
Sound-cancelling headphones with soothing music is just one of four steps in our NuCalm system. Each step complements and reinforces the total relaxation effect. You’ll walk out of our office feeling like you just had a pleasant cat nap. To learn more about our NuCalm system, fill out this short form on our NuCalm page.
And if you have any questions about NuCalm or about dental anxiety, ask us below.
