How Dentist Can Help Patients With Anxiety & Fear

Every practicing dentist has issues with patients who have anxiety and fear. Dental anxiety is very real, and has a significant impact on the patient’s experience.

It is well-documented that dental anxiety has a psychological and physiological effect. It can be detrimental to patient’s lives.

It has been documented time and time again, most dental patients would rather have sedation for extractions, periodontics, and endodontics, those with severe anxiety, disabilities, or gag reflex even prefer sedation for cleanings, fillings, and cavities.

While dental anxiety involves such a large portion of the population, the emotional stress that is placed on the dentist is not discussed as often. Over time, the burden the doctor and staff feel by the anxiety their patients can take a toll on the dentist and their staff

Many dentists feel their options for treatment are limited, without their liability increasing. Especially for patients who need higher levels of sedation. Fortunately, there is a solution, through affordable and high quality IV dental sedation from Blue Sky Anesthesia Associates.

The biggest questions we often get asked, “will having IV sedation brought into my dental office from a reputable anesthesiologist affect my profitability?

Partnering with Blue Sky Anesthesia Associates is essentially a cost neutral way to not only keep your existing patients happy, but also attract new patients to your office. Affordable and flexible anesthesia care is a very marketable asset.

Patients that are fearful are more apt to have a dental procedure done if under IV sedation. Offering this to your patients can dramatically increase the number of patients you care for.

It saves the patient and you time and money if the procedure can be performed in your office under IV anesthesia instead of going to the hospital.

IV sedation will allow you to work more efficiently because the patients are virtually still throughout the whole procedure.

Lengthy procedures can be done in a fraction of the time since you can focus on what you do best.