While sedation can be administered in lots of different ways , the 4 most common forms of sedation on offer are:
1) Inhalation sedation also known as “laughing gas”, “happy gas”, nitrous, nitrous oxide for more informtion on laughing gas, click here
2) Oral sedation -relaxant pills or a liquid. This is very good if your fear is procedure-specific (e. g. needles, extractions), especially if you know that the fear would still exist in the presence of an empathetic dentist and adequate pain-control
3) Intravenous (IV) sedation-If you don’t want to be aware of what’s happening during a procedure and you want to be “out of it”, IV sedation is the method of choice
Intravenous (IV) sedation is when drugs areadministered into the blood-stream through a vein – that’s what “intravenous” stands for. We are one of very fewof dental offices that offer this service and it is administered by an anethesiologist in our office. All of the hospital emergency equipment, monitoring devices and medicaton is on hand for this procedure.
4) General Anesthesia - This is for either exceptionally long procedures or for developementaly disableled adults or small children. Again, we are one of very fewof dental offices that offer this service and it is administered by an anethesiologist in our office. All of the hospital emergency equipment, monitoring devices and medicaton is on hand for this procedure.
