Category: Sedation Dentistry

If you have a difficult time relaxing at the dentist, you’re not alone. Millions of adults struggle with dental anxiety or other concerns that make going to the dentist almost impossible. Our team encourages you to not skip your dental appointments and instead choose to receive calming sedation dentistry at your visit.

Who Benefits from Sedation?

• Dental anxiety or bad past dental experiences
• Dislike the sounds and smells of the dentist office
• Have difficulty sitting still for long periods
• Need lengthy or complex dental treatment
• Have sensitive teeth or a sensitive gag reflex

Sedation for Every Type of Patient

Nitrous Oxide

Alternately known as “laughing gas,” nitrous oxide provides relaxing effects when breathed through your nose. Nitrous puts you into a euphoric and calm state that helps to ease anxiety or restlessness. This is the mildest form of sedation and has no aftereffects, so you’ll be able to drive yourself home after your appointment.

Oral Sedation

Taken by mouth a few hours before your appointment, oral sedation is an anti-anxiety medication that puts you into a very calm state. While the effects last, you’ll feel comfortable and relaxed and won’t be anxious about what is happening around you. Oral medication may last longer than your appointment, so it’s advised that you have someone drive you home afterward.

IV Sedation

Administered intravenously, IV sedation is highly customizable and highly effective at easing discomforts associated with dental appointments. Many patients fall into a light sleep during their visit though they will always be awake enough to respond to verbal commands. If you have more severe anxiety or do not want to remember your appointment, IV sedation is ideal for you.

General Anesthesia

Only reserved for highly complex dental surgeries and those with dental phobia, general anesthesia is medically controlled unconsciousness. Often, patients needing this form of anesthesia receive treatment in a hospital setting, unless the dentist office has a fully equipped surgical suite. An anesthesiologist will be at your appointment to monitor all your vitals during your procedure. You’ll need someone to drive you home and a few days of rest to fully recover after your treatment.

Schedule Your Appointment

Think sedation dentistry can benefit you? Schedule your appointment with our office now and learn which option is best for you.

Dental anxiety has no limitations and it can affect dental patients of all ages. However, thanks to major advancements in sedation dentistry, patients who suffer from dental anxiety have an option for relief. Even more so they will be able to experience receiving the dental care they need without the anxiety they don’t want. To learn more about benefits of sedation for patients read why it’s beneficial below:

 

Which Patients Benefit?
The usual types of patients that benefit from sedation dentistry include those with the following:

• Sensitive teeth
• Dental Anxiety
• Low pain tolerance
• Claustrophobia
• Sensitive gag reflex
• Previous dental trauma
• Fidgety behavior

Positives of Sedation Dentistry
The major benefit of undergoing sedation during a dental procedure, such as dental implants and wisdom tooth extractions, is to avoid receiving any kind of dental pain or dental anxiety during the dental procedure. Also, this allows the doctor more time to be precise with their work ensuring that you have a positive dental experience and minimal healing time.

 

Schedule Your Appointment
If you suffer from dental anxiety or if you fall into the category of any of the above-mentioned types of patients then you would benefit from sedation dentistry. Please feel free to contact our office in Fargo, ND to schedule your appointment. Our doctor, Dr Michael Noffze, will be able to discuss our sedation options with you and find the best option for you.

Sedation Dentistry And Dental Anxiety Elimination
If you are suffering from dental anxiety thanks to advancements in sedation dentistry you no longer have to fear going to the dentist. Your oral health is vitally important especially because
it is connected to your overall health. Also, to learn more about what sedation dentistry entails as well as the different types of sedation that we offer please read the upcoming paragraphs:

What is Sedation Dentistry?
Sedation dentistry comes in many forms and the type of sedation that is administered to a patient by our doctor really depends on the patient’s comfort level as well ad the type of dental procedure that needs to be done. To better understand sedation, review the different types below:

Different Types of Sedation

• Oral Sedation: This is sedation in pill form, taken about an hour before your appointment, which can reduce your anxiety and help ease pain. It can make you groggy and drowsy, thus requiring a ride to and from your appointment.
• Nitrous Oxide: Also known as “laughing gas,” nitrous is administered in the office by a general dentist just prior to your procedure, and it wears off within minutes so that you can drive yourself home.
• Local Anesthetic: This is used to help relieve severe pain, such as during highly invasive procedures and emergency situations, and it can be injected directly into painful areas.

Schedule Your Consultation
Now that you have a better understanding of sedation dentistry please don’t hesitate to contact our office to set up a consultation. This will allow you to meet with our doctor so that he can work with you to determine which form of sedation would best suit your needs.