This paper presents a series of intervention modalities and psycho-pedagogical strategies for preventing and reducing dental phobia in children. Dental phobia represents a category of phobic disorders that consists in experiencing an intense fear, up to real panic attacks, towards an event, a situation or a specific object. The therapeutic story is a way of specific intervention with very good results in the prevention and reduction of dental phobia in children, appearing as a beneficial tool, available to any parent. Therapeutic stories can therefore be used successfully by parents at home. The therapeutic fairy tale is specially created to contain a masked idea, expressed indirectly, meant at suggesting a change of behavior or attitude. This idea is presented in an unusual, unexpected context, which takes the child by surprise. Music therapy is a non-verbal therapy that uses sound and music in all their forms to promote, maintain and restore mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health. Music therapy can also be defined as a communication tool, used as a mediator in the relationship between the therapist and the young patient.
Keywords:- dental phobia
- music therapy
- prevention
- psycho-pedagogical strategies
- therapeutic story