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  • Title: What dentists need to know about CADM: complementary and alternative dentistry and medicine.
    Author: Tobey HS.
    Journal: J N J Dent Assoc; 1996; 67(4):21-4. PubMed ID: 9520719.
    Abstract:
    This article is written for dentists and paraprofessionals working with dentists, to provide a better understanding of the current and increasing acceptable modality of Complementary and Alternative Dentistry and Medicine. What dentists need to know about hypnosis, or mind-body imagery, a method and technique used in alternative dentistry, is explained in detail. Conscious behavior, also termed rational or normal consciousness, and subconscious behavior, also referred to as the altered state of consciousness, will be detailed. Once recognizing the role of this subconscious state, the main focus of this article is to describe what this state is, the characteristics that belong to this scientific practical phenomenon, and the key to how to induce this state, simply, readily and easily in eighty percent of dental patients.
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