This past year we have added some techniques and procedures to increase
reduce anxiety, and increase patient comfort in the dental office. One
area where we are seeing a growth in usage is in sedation dentistry.
We use oral sedation with Halcion which makes you very sleepy in the
chair, and the best part is there is some amnesia associated with the
medication so that you forget that there ever was a dental procedure
being performed.
For more extensive dentistry and very long
appointments we have recently been working with a board certified
anesthesiologist who sedates our patients so that they are unconscious
during the procedure. Both oral and IV sedation are two techniques to
increase patient comfort and reduce dental fear and anxiety. The other
advantage is that a great deal of dentistry can be completed in one
office visit. Our patients really appreciate that they can have a
great deal of dentistry done comfortably in a shorter period of time
with less office visits.
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