Our lives are filled with enough stress, dentist care should be a breeze. Sedation dentistry is recommended for those who have a phobia of the dentist, fear, anxiety, trauma, sensitivity to pain, a gag reflex, special needs, or just don’t like going to the dentist. Both children and adults can feel uneasy with the sights and sounds at the dentist office. Especially if they are going to have a long procedure. Blue Sky Anesthesia Associates can help.
Dentist Treatments Don’t Have To Hurt
Intravenous sedation is a form of conscious sedation, it helps relieve all your anxiety and make you feel relaxed.
While you won’t be fully asleep, the medication makes you feel less aware of your surroundings. Including the procedure occurring in your mouth. Which means you will be able to respond to verbal questions.
Comfortable Oral Health Care Is Possible
The National Library of Medicine explains how IV sedation can help patients get the dental care they need and prioritize safety in, “Practice Guidelines for Intravenous Conscious Sedation in Dentistry.”
Intravenous sedation is a method of intravenously administering a sedative so that a patient can receive dental treatment safely and comfortably; it is a patient management method that reduces or eliminates fear and anxiety during treatment. This method is a specialized treatment that is used worldwide and responds to the need to prevent medical complications, underlying disease exacerbation, and stress during oral/dental surgical treatment under local anesthesia in patients with dental phobia or medical compromise.
Conscious sedation is a procedure in which the level of sedation is regulated so that consciousness is maintained. Anxiety and fear of dental treatment and oral surgical procedures are frequently eliminated; calm is maintained, and the patient can respond to verbal command or light physical stimuli.
Benefits Of IV Sedation For Dentistry
It takes into effect very quickly, you will minimal pain, if any, during the treatment.
A third party Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) will monitor all your vitals and breathing. And adjust the dosage of medication accordingly.
IV sedation creates an amnesia type response, when the appointment is over you won’t remember the procedure.
Because you will be relaxed, you will be able to sit for an extended period of time, the dentist will be able to perform multiple treatments in just one appointment.
