Music therapy mitigates anxiety through several physiological and psychological mechanisms, and it suppresses the sympathetic nervous system, leading to decreased arousal and anxiety.
Music also triggers the release of endorphins, enhancing a sense of well-being, and activates the brain’s pleasure center, releasing dopamine, which regulates pleasure and mood.
It’s not only patients who can benefit from music in practice. All staff in a busy dental business will experience stress, from managing nervous children (and adults!) to the occasional dissatisfied patient, as well as personal anxieties from outside the workplace. Playing music can be a great way to create a calm, serene environment, which might not completely mitigate the issues above, but could help reduce them as well as keeping staff calm and focus while dealing with them.
