Comfort, trust, performance. That’s the tagline on www.TheDentalButton.com. The little hand-held device is similar to the buttons game show contestants hold to buzz in with an answer. But The Dental Button stops the drill. If statistics aren’t too stilted, about half of the population avoids dental visits because of fear. Of those, some unknown number experience fear because of control issues. As for the 50% who visit the dentist regularly, 85% suffer from anxiety in the dental chair.
The Dental Button is intended to put control into the patients’ hands – literally. At the push of a button, a patient can stop your drill. In a yearlong trial, The Dental Button was shown to reduce patient anxiety by 50-80%. Also, during the trial, 90% of the patients who used The Dental Button told their friends about the positive experience, and who couldn’t use a boost in word-of-mouth marketing? Check out this news story about the inventor…
You may think allowing patients to stop your work will decrease productivity. In that one-year trial, productivity increased by almost a third. Furthermore, The Dental Button brochure claims that misuse by the patient showed no decline in productivity.
The Dental Button is manufactured by m2parntership, a US-based manufacturer of dental products. The product website features live online support and information about ROI, as well as testimonials.
The Dental Button is available in the US now, and will soon be on the market in Canada and Europe. Keep an eye out for The Dental Button at these events:
Greater New York Dental Meeting
November 29 – December 2, 2009
www.gnydm.com
145th Mid-Winter Meeting, Chicago Dental Society
February 25-27, 2010
www.cds.org/mwm
4 responses so far ↓
1 Paulina // Jun 18, 2009 at 9:48 am
This sounds like a great idea. Many people love to be in control and what is better than being in control of your body and especially your dentist 🙂 Unfortunatelly we do not have that in our office, but we do have the option of sedation. Many patients find this very helpful when it comes to overcomming the anxciety and fear.
2 Paulina // Jun 18, 2009 at 9:48 am
This sounds like a great idea. Many people love to be in control and what is better than being in control of your body and especially your dentist 🙂 Unfortunatelly we do not have that in our office, but we do have the option of sedation. Many patients find this very helpful when it comes to overcomming the anxciety and fear.
3 Dentist Vaughan // Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 am
Very interesting idea, but sometimes giving the patient too much control is not a good thing.
4 Dentist Vaughan // Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 am
Very interesting idea, but sometimes giving the patient too much control is not a good thing.
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