Music treatment, which is based on the theories and methods of psychological treatment, by use of the special physiological and psychological effects of music, helps the patients avoid suffering from psychological block and reach the aim of restoring or promoting physical and mental health through various custom-designed music activities and experience the taste of music. With the development of cross-discipline, music therapy has become an important method for the modern medical psychology-society-biological treatment model. Over the last decade, music therapy has also been widely used in dental treatment. This is a review about the music therapy in dental treatment in some sub-disciplines, such as conservative dentistry and endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, and so on.
