For about close to ten years now, Dr Leu has been treating only fearful and phobic patients. There is no everyday practice routine with normal treatments. When he started his professional career, Dr Leu was one of the first dentists to treat severely handicapped people under general anaesthesia, which was not without risk in those days. During his career, he met some of the world’s best dentists, which aroused his interest in patients with severe problems. The result today is known by the name of THREE-APPOINTMENT THERAPY. Treatment is always carried out under general anaesthesia, i.e. with an anaesthetic procedure developed by Dr Leu (known as OLA-ITN®). The impressive results led Dr Leu to have the procedure protected by trademark: 3TT–OLA-ITN®.
Over the years, Dr Leu observed another phenomenon common among dental phobics: malocclusion, or a poor bite. In many cases, some patients had extensive tooth decay although they had cared properly for their teeth. Malocclusion means that the muscles of mastication, which exert a great force, generate pressure at the wrong site over many years, which causes the affected teeth to decay. Dr Leu discovered that 99% of the phobic patients he treated had malocclusion problems. There seems to be a connection between malocclusion and phobia. This is a question that scientists are called upon to examine. Even if there were no direct link between malocclusion and phobia, every dentist should be interested in eliminating the malocclusion problem in his patients. Dr Leu thus developed a second innovation to his treatment technique: A full-mouth reconstruction eliminates malocclusion with the result that our patients become and remain phobia-free.
Dr Michael Leu is the chairman of the Member of the German Association for Dental Treatment Phobia (registered association) and of the GentleDentalOffice® Group, the members of which include excellent dentists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, psychologists and anaesthetists who, like Dr Leu himself, focus on the problems of dental phobic patients. This allows us to constantly enhance our 3TT–OLA-ITN® technique by integrating state-of-the-art dental procedures of our qualified experts.