Chris Gull aims to take the fear out of people who are worried about a trip to the dentist.
He even uses hypnotherapy at his practice in Ship Street, Brighton, to make them feel comfortable.
The idea is to make them have good, rather than bad, recollections of visits to the dentist - a case of fangs for the memory.
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