Types of Sedation Used in Dental Procedures
Waiting for the dentist to start administering any dental procedure can be a heart-racing experience. A person wouldn’t really be thrilled with the idea of someone drilling and pulling off his teeth for quite some time. For some, sitting at the dentist’s chair can cause anxiety, intimidation and discomfort, which could lead to dental phobias. In these cases, dentists adhere to different types of sedation to relieve their patients’ anxiety. This will enable them to treat their patients faster. There are three ways a dentist can reduced anxiety and fear from his patient: oral conscious sedation, inhalation sedation and intravenous sedation. The commonly used method in sedation dentistry would be oral conscious sedation where the patient would take oral medications prior to the treatment. These are prescribed by the dentist to be taken a day before the actual dental procedure. This might make the patient drowsy but responsive during the entire procedure. However, these sedatives might not relieve the patient from the possible pain of the procedure so local anesthetics are usually administered. Inhalation sedation is another option of sedation dentistry Paradise Valley dentists may administer. This method is known for the use of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. This method has a lot of advantages such as effectively eliminating pain, inducing a feeling of euphoria with no lingering side effects to the patient. Nitrous oxide can be administered in incremental doses until the desired level of sedation is reached. When the dental procedure is complex and would require the patient to be unconscious, intravenous or IV is the kind of sedation dentistry Paradise Valley dentists administer. This works quickly since the drug is injected into the patient’s bloodstream and makes the patient partly asleep but responsive to the dentist’s instructions. IV sedation can lead to a level of sedation that is deeper and more intense, but on one hand, the dentist can manipulate the dosage of the drug for the patient. Then again, if the dental procedure is only minor, dentists typically use local anesthesia or anesthetic gels to induce certain numbness on one area of the mouth. Under this type of sedation dentistry Paradise Valley patients are fully aware of their surroundings and the entire procedure but can’t feel any pain or effects from the treatment.
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