Abstract
Life related disease( LRD) may be correlated with dental diseases which are malocclusion as well as dental caries and marginal periodontitis. Accordingly, control of LRD is likely to be a key factor to control dental diseases, and dentist should pay attention to patientʼs life. Furthermore, it would be nearly impossible maintain oral health without long-term follow up by dentist and/or hygienist.Hence, detail explanation of dental treatment process as well as treatment result should be required for rapport between patient and dentist. Rapport between patients and dentist is quite important, and it must be comprisable by familiar communication. Therefore, dentist and its stuff should take technique to make ʻfamiliar communicationʼ with patients. However, little is discussed about communication approach as item of dental clinic. We applied ʻcommunication style inventoryʼ which was utilized in business coaching area to take ʻfamiliar communicationʼ with patients. Additionally, we introduced how to make ʻheart to heart communicationʼ between dentist and patient, and its efficacy in clinical cases is discussed in this article.
