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While therapy dogs have shown promise in various medical and mental health contexts, their use for alleviating dental anxiety remains underexplored. A new study in
General Dentistry aimed to investigate the emotional and physiologic effects of therapy dogs on self-reported dental anxiety, finding that introduction of the dogs was feasible and elicited positive patient responses.
Learn more in the July/August issue.