Acupuncture Puts Nervous Dental Patients at Ease

Acupuncture Therpy before dental work calms anxious patients. Acupuncture needles stuck into two strategic spots on the head may reduce anxiety levels of highly nervous dental patients, new research indicates.
The needles induce relaxation and reduce fear that all but paralysed some people facing dental treatments, say researchers from England and Denmark.
In a study published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine, acupuncture treatment was performed in 16 women and four men from eight dental practices. Each of the patients had been rated as moderately or extremely anxious based on a questionnaire scale called the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).

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