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CULTURE FACTS
Tips to overcome fear of the dentist
This fear is due to many reasons : it may be the memory of a treatment that hurt ; or to go to the dentist has the
bitter aftertaste of the experiences suffered when we were kids . Karen Coates , dental adviser to the British Dental
Health Foundation , tells how ' some people have such dental phobia that have not been to the dentist for years. It is
quite common to find people in their twenties or thirties, or even older, who have not been to a dental clinic since they
were tots ' .
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