Benefits of Playing Music in Dental Practices
- 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.
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