With four simple steps that take 3-4 minutes, a predictable technology claims to naturally interrupt the stress response and guide dental patients to deep relaxation.

Solace, the maker of NuCalm®, was founded by a pioneering neuroscientist in 2002 with the expressed intent of improving the human experience.

According to its creators, and Chicago practitioner Peter Harnois, DDS,  NuCalm transforms the dental patient’s experience by naturally relaxing the body within minutes.

“No more nitrous, no more valium, no more conscious sedation,” Dr. Harness, President of the

Illinois Academy of Facial Esthetics, Chicago, told abc7chicago.com in a Healthbeat report.

Though it does not eliminate anesthetics, NuCalm offers natural, drug-free, side-effect free, and cost-effective means to creating the ideal patient.

A few factors exhibited:

  • Relaxation
  • Unaware of time and space
  • Physically incapable of having an anxious response
  • Consciousness (can respond to voice commands)
  • Uncompromising health of patients

Seems too good to be true? There’s some science behind it all.

NuCalm calms the brain within minutes by bringing alert beta brain wave function down to the alpha range (first stage of sleep). The system is predicated on neuropsychobiology and neurobioinformatics and was developed over several years by leading neuroscientists.