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Dentists are prone to stress due to the environment they work. The office is a confined space which can often be isolating. There is often time constraints which can add to the pressure. Patients are often anxious about their treatment, and this can also affect you as the dentist. With all of these aspects, it’s important that the professional has ways to cope and address this. By practicing yoga, you can ease the tension and find your bliss. This enables you to handle the long hours and multiple patients. Your sense of calm will rub off onto your patients creating a tranquil dental clinic.
Yoga has health benefits for everyone including dentists. It promotes increased strength and flexibility which increases the stamina required to examine patients every day. The physical health benefits of yoga include:
Being in the best physical shape allows you to take care of your patients.
By practicing yoga, a dentist can feel empowered to share their yoga experience with their patients. After all, ‘practice what you preach.’ Yoga can play a role in great dental hygiene practices. Yoga has extensive dental benefits including:
This is beneficial for both you and your patient. Without yoga, you may have poor posture especially if you spend time crouching over your patient or perhaps sat at a desk all day. This positions your head forward and can cause it to misalign with your spine. Over time this can result in jaw pain. You can reduce this with yoga practice.
As saliva washes away harmful bacteria, it makes sense to want to promote its production. Through yoga, your patients will learn breathing techniques that increase saliva.
When a patient is anxious about a dental procedure, you can take them through breathing exercises that improve their state of mind. Stress causes the production of the hormone cortisol which has an adverse impact on gum inflammation.
When working in a dental clinic, you are more prone to back, shoulder and neck pain. Bending over to examine patients or sitting at a desk impacts your posture causing these aches. Incorporate yoga practice into your day either before or after work or just a few minutes in between patients. It will make a huge difference by alleviating any existing pains or preventing them.
Dentists greatly benefit from practicing yoga as it relieves stress and improves your health. You can set a great example for your patients and teach them to use it as part of their dental hygiene or stress management for procedures. Dentists often complain or neck, back or shoulder pain. However, you can avoid this with yoga. If you are looking for ways to incorporate yoga into your dental office, then explore the benefits of Membership with the Yoga Dentistry Association.
