videos for survivors
Here are the videos for survivors. We start with why oral health is important below:
How to choose a dentist you can trust is next:
‘Visiting the dentist: Advice from survivors for survivors’ contains interviews of 3 survivors of sexual assault and Carolyn Worth, manager of the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault. This same content can be viewed as shorter videos exploring individual topics below this one.
Now we have the same material as the full length version above broken up into 7 shorter videos, each addressing one question. We begin with Part 1 below:
Part 2 looks at two of the most common reactions survivors of sexual assault and trauma experience at the dentist; panic attacks and dissociation:
Here is Part 3, which asks survivors to describe their greatest dental fear:
Next up, Part 4 delves into brushing and flossing difficulties and how these are linked directly to a history of sexual assault:
From exploring the problems in the videos above to looking at solutions now, Part 5 below asks survivors of sexual assault to reveal the strategies they use to cope with visiting the dentist:
In Part 6 below we hear survivors of sexual assault speaking directly to dentists:
Finally, Part 7 concludes this series with survivors connecting to other survivors around the world and offering up their valuable advice regarding dentistry and oral health:
Please continue watching the videos for dentists on this website here: