Sedation options
Dental anxiety and sedation
Sedation Dentistry Options:
Calming the central nervous system to a minimum, discouraging anxiety and creating a long-term memory for events, but without losing consciousness.
Local anesthesia:
To prevent the transmission of nerve impulses between a specific part of the body and the central nervous system, causing loss of sensation in this part of the body.
The objectives of Sedation Dentistry
Oral Sedation
Very strong anti-anxiety drugs for adults one pill before visiting the dentist’s clinic, and advised to be accompanied with someone as a safety measure. Where the person feels completely relaxed and his nerves began to relax a little, which facilitates procedures in the dental clinic.
IV Sedation
It also starts with a pill for relaxation, then your dentist will insert an IV in a very gentle way which will leave you fully aware, including the process of breathing and swallowing, but in a deep relaxation state and used this case of people who suffer from severe fear of the dental clinic and children who cannot tolerate the dental chair and cannot do any dental procedure with any of the previous ways. It is also used in dental treatment for people with special needs.