IV Sedation

Sedation for Anxious Dental Patients

Sedation can be an excellent choice for you if you fear dentists and dental operations.

It can make you have a more pleasant dental visit by making you more relaxed while the various dental procedures are done.

This approach is used for patients having a dental phobia, and this can have many reasons as:
Hypersensitive teeth
Pain
Unpleasant past dental experience
A complex of many dental problems
The problem is that patients having this phobia will choose to neglect dental treatment, thus exacerbating the damage to the tooth structure.

Sedation not only helps anxious patients but also helps dentists by having a calm cooperative patient to have the dental procedures done pleasantly.

What is Dental Sedation?

It’s using medications having a sedating effect to relax anxious dental patients to have a pleasant dental visit by making the patients feel sleepy and relaxed but don’t make them sleep.

They are medications like tranquillizers and anxiolytics and can be given in various ways.

What are the available types of dental sedation?

There are some ways to do sedative dentistry to help have painless and calm dental procedures.
It explains itself, that it’s giving a sedative orally to decrease most of the stress felt by the patient. However, the patient is being conscious to be aware of the instructions given by the dentist.

Oral sedatives do not relieve pain, but they relax the patient before the dentist applies the local anaesthetic.

They are given two times prior to the dental procedure, once before going to bed the night of the procedure and then in the morning of the procedure, these pills will have a drowsiness effect on you and you probably won’t remember most of the procedures as it has a similar effect as of amnesia.

You may be instructed not to drive that day as these sedatives will make you feel drowsy.
The patient is given the sedative as an injection and has a similar effect to the oral sedatives, making the patient feels sleepy and drowsy that he may not remember a lot about the dental procedure.

The most common sedatives to be administered intravenously to reduce anxiety are benzodiazepine and propofol. They are given directly to the vein by a well-trained experienced dentist.

Although IV sedation is very popular, they are contraindicated in many circumstances.
  • Fear of needles
  • Glaucoma
  • Lung or kidney diseases
  • Allergy to sedative medications
  • Very old patients
It works by temporarily stopping the nerve supply from feeding the area of the dental procedure. First, a gel or spray with an anaesthetic effect is given to the site of the injection and then the local anaesthetic is given.

You are completely aware and conscious but not affected by the treatment’s symptoms.
It’s most commonly used in major dental surgeries and for patients that sedation is not indicated for them.

It makes you enter a state of unconsciousness and you may feel the side effects persisting for several hours after the procedure.

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