On other occasions when I had been dealing with fear of dentistry, I had come accross some horrific cases where people had been subject to terrific pain and frightening experiences, and I had used all of my skills to induce pain relief and override tortuous memories of dental appointments from hell, so I was pleasantly surprised, if not amazed, that Sharon's fears had grown from much less horrific incidents.

There were a couple of elements to the foundation of Sharon's fears, and they all began when she was about five years old.

The first problem related to the rubber face mask which dentists used to placed over childrens' mouths in order for them to have gas. I remember this experience well, myself. That horrible smell! Well, in order to make this experience comfortable in Sharon's subconscious, while Sharon was in trance, I changed the mask into a magic chocolate mask, which smelled of chocolate, and when the mask came over the face, all the chocolate fairies appeared, and entertained Sharon by reading stories, and playing games, until the chocolate face mask was removed.

This worked very well in removing that fear from Sharon's subconscious. I then had to tackle the problem of the fear of the pain, as a result of the injection, as there were no memories of pain from anything else in her subconscious.

I created some anaesthesia techniques which would be used in her subconscious memory of the injection, and also would be available for Sharon to use later, in full consciousness, using her subconscious mind to do the work. There are a number of techniques which can be used, but I chose two which seem to be good companions.