The Steps to Building a Better Smile: Sedation Dentistry

The Steps to Building a Better Smile: Sedation Dentistry

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The Steps to Building a Better Smile: Sedation Dentistry

If you are ever afraid of visiting your dentist due to fears of the unknown or potential stresses and anxieties about pain, fear not, as sedation dentistry exists to help patients with sedatives so that your oral health care treatments can be given accordingly. Everything from a mild sedative in the form of a gas sedation up to deep sedation using anesthesia can be used to help achieve the necessary levels of sedation.

Gas Sedation – Gas sedation is one of the easiest methods of sedation and safe enough to use that a patient can drive themselves home after it is administered.

Oral Sedation – Oral sedation is given through the use of a pill. A person can experience a multitude of sedation levels based on the dosage levels. However, oral sedation typically must be given roughly an hour before any oral health care procedures, as it can take this long for the effects to kick in.

Intravenous Sedation – If you’re in need of a sedative that is fast acting and can begin to work immediately, intravenous sedation can be given in which the sedative is directly placed into your bloodstream via a vein. Dosage levels can be adjusted as needed.

General Anesthesia – Often thought of as the strongest variety of sedation, general anesthesia is given to put a patient into a deep sleep so that multifaceted procedures and surgeries can be used. Typically, with general anesthesia, an individual will not awake from their sleep until the anesthesia has worn off.

Our team at Premier Dentistry of Eagle focuses on a selection of sedation dentistry treatments to suit all your oral health care needs. If you would like an oral exam from Dr. Shane S. Porter, please schedule an appointment to come see us at our dentist office in Eagle, Idaho. You are welcome to call us at (208) 546-0655.

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