Gifts and rewards are always appreciated by anyone and everyone. When the children perform well during their dental visit, which means, they follow the instructions and cope well during the treatment, they get rewarded at the end. The gestures such as praise, applaud, hugs and pictures can create a beautiful memory of the visit to the dentist.
Apart from these non-tangible gestures, there are always tangible keepsakes and give aways that add lifetime remembrance and impact to the good experience.
When the small gifts are offered to the children, they are of course delighted about the achievements.
In Neurolinguistic Programming, the process of rooting an experience with a reward, a sign or a gesture is referred to as Anchoring. “Anchoring” refers to the process of associating an internal response with some external or internal trigger so that the response may be quickly, and sometimes covertly re accessed at the moments when its required one more time.
When the gift is offered at the appointment closure, child is informed to place it at some visible platform on their desk where it stays obvious to their eyes.
These gifts serve as reminder of their brave attempt, good listening, and remarkable victory over their fear. Any time they need this reminder of their personality, they can hold on the gift, which was anchored to their act of bravery. Doing so, will mentally put them into the state of confidence, achievement, and success. Once they have these emotions in the fore front, they feel ready to deal with the new challenge. Anchoring with verbal compliments, rewards, keepsakes, give aways is indeed one of the most practiced NLP techniques that helps in instilling positive dental attitude for lifetime. of