title: Communicating with patients.
abstract: Dental care providers need to be able to communicate effectively with their patients in order to build rapport and trust. Highly developed communication skills also enable the dental care provider to extract more accurate diagnostic information and to more effectively present treatment options to the patient. Neurolinguistic programming techniques can be employed to accomplish these as well as other objectives.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Kaplowitz
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception; D003142:Communication; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis; D014796:Visual Perception