Delivering comfort with words not drugs
Available Episodes
Session #27
Patient Care As Your Primary Focus
With Dr. Richard Nongard
In this edition, you’ll get to sit in on my conversation with Dr. Nongard about the power of caring for your patients and the ways in which you can build deep rapport with them.
Session #28
How To Start A New Habit
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I give you an inside look into the strategies I use with myself and my clients to create long-lasting, useful habits, that don’t feel like a chore.
Session #29
Self-hypnosis for Dental Procedures
With Patricia Scott
In this edition, I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friend and colleague, Patricia Scott and we discuss the use of self-hypnosis for dental treatments and how it can benefit you and your patients.
Session #30
Simplified Conflict Resolution
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I give you a brief introduction to some conflict resolution techniques that can help you help your patients stop bruxism, or if suffering from TMJD because of clenching.
Session #31
Curiosity: An Important Skill
With Carlos Casados
In this edition, I had a great conversation with Carlos Casados about how remaining curious is one of the best ways to show your patients you care and help them overcome their challenges.
Session #32
How To Strive for Excellence
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I give you an overview of a framework that I refer to as the three stages of excellence, which can help you improve yourself in all areas of life and help others do the same.
Session #33
Setting Patient Expectations
With Dr. Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas
In this edition you’ll get to hear my conversation with a dynamic hypnotist and friend, who is the founder of the International Hypnosis Federation and author of 24+ books on hypnosis.
Session #34
The Power of Voice Inflection
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, you can learn how to improve your communication skills by making simple changes to your vocal inflection and tonality, so you can say what you mean, clearly.
Session #36
Common Uses for Dental Hypnosis
With Guest Host, Dr. Munir Ravalia
In this edition, I had the honor of being interviewed by Dr. Munir Ravalia about the benefits and uses of hypnosis in dentistry as an adjunct service to the standard oral sedation.
Session #37
How to Improve Patient Outcomes
With Guest Host, Dr. Munir Ravalia
In this edition, you can listen to the second half of my interview with Dr. Munir Ravalia where we share with you a case study and some great tips to improve patient experience and overall results.
Session #38
The Person In Charge of Patient Comfort
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I give you some more details about the Nitrous guided imagery technique that I briefly mentioned in my interview with Dr. Ravalia and other tips to excel at patient care.
Session #39
Make Your Office Their Comfort Zone
With Sheila Granger
In this edition, I’m joined by Sheila Granger who gives us lots of food for thought about the way we greet and interact with dental patients and how we can manage our own state to improve the patient experience.
Session #40
How to Thrive in The Current Situation
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, you’ll receive a “take it to the bank and cash it” kind of tip that will help you stay ahead of the game with your patients and turn the current lemons into lemonade.
Session #41
Mind-Body Strategies for Your Patients
With Pierre-Etienne Vannier
In this edition, you get to eavesdrop on my conversation with Pierre-Etienne Vannier about effective mind-body approaches and modalities he uses with his patients to help them find relief.
Session #42
How To Put Up With Your Own Mistakes
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I tell you about a saying a friend told me in a moment of frustration and distress that changed everything for me, and how to use it for your benefit and to help your patients.
Session #43
What Specifically Do You Fear?
With Margo Danielle Drucker
In this edition, I had a fun conversation with Margo Danielle Drucker about simple ways to help your patients overcome their fears and feel more comfortable and cared for.
Session #44
Problem Solving Skills
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I share with you a useful model for evaluating and working through challenges and situations you and your patients are occasionally involved in.
Session #45
The Therapeutic Alliance
With Adrian Madril and Dr. Geoffrey Streeter
In this edition, medical hypnotist Adrian Madril and Dr. Geoffrey Streeter, join me to discuss the practitioner/patient alliance and how to motivate powerful and long lasting changes.
Session #46
Patient Experience Blueprint
Dr. Munir Ravalia
In this edition, Dr. Munir Ravalia joins me to discuss some of the ways to build strong connections with your patients and with adjunct care practitioners to improve the patient experience at your office.
Session #47
The Hypnodontics Summit
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, you get all the details about the upcoming Hypnodontics Summit: The Patient Experience Blueprint and the reasons you might want to mark your calendar for this event!
Session #48
Mindset of A Successful Experience
With Zoilita Grant
In this edition, I got together with Zoilita Grant to talk about how to improve the patient experience with simple techniques you can start using right away.
Session #49
Improving The Patient Experience
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I tell you about three natural ways to improve the patient experience at your office and have happier patients with simple tweaks to your communication style
Session #50
Hypnotherapy Training and Communication Skills
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, you’ll get a glimpse of some of the many actionable skills you’ll learn at the Hypnodontics Summit and how you can become that special dentist for nervous patients.
Session #51
The Voices of Hypnodontics
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, some of the Hypnodontics Summit’s presenters tell you in their own words what this amazing FREE event has in store for you and why you should attend.
Session #52
No Traffic Jams On The Extra Mile
With Juan Acosta
In this edition, I highlight a few steps you can take to improve the patient experience at your office (with minimal effort) and you’ll get to meet some more Hypnodontics Summit presenters.
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The Natural Comfort Specialist show delivers usable information to improve the patient experience and dental practices. The host, Juan Acosta, is a professional medical and clinical hypnotherapist and not a doctor. Listeners of the podcast should NEVER confuse the content of this show and/or website with medical/clinical advice, nor should they use the content as a substitute for treatment or actual medical/dental/psychological advice. While some guests might have higher education certificates, ALL the information shared within is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Listen and use at your own risk.
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