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We have a lot of sedation options here in our office, many, many sedation options. The first option will be as simple as most people have heard of, is nitrous oxide. In my experience, that works very well with children. Under a 12-year-old, put some nitrous and they will be comfortable doing the procedures. Patients who are a little older, what we can do, we can also do oral sedation where we give you pills to take before you come in and when you come in, we put you on nitrous as well and oxygen and you’ll be comfortable that way and do sedation that way where you’re kind of still aware but you’re kind of relaxed. I think oral sedation is a good option for patients who are not very anxious about dentistry but just want to be a little bit relaxed for a lot of the procedures.
The final option, which most of my patients, the way I work on them, because I do more of the bigger surgeries, we use IV sedation. These are for patients who are extremely nervous, extremely anxious. I have some patients, I cannot do a cleaning on them without them being out. I cannot take an x-ray on them without them being out. Some patients just don’t like to be at the dentist to start with so they just want to be sedated altogether. So the IV sedation option will be the top first tier we have. We can actually do…start an IV on you here in the office and that will be the last thing you remember. We’ll put some drugs through your bloodstream and you’ll be completely relaxed and comfortable through the entire procedure, and you will not remember a thing, okay. That’s the IV sedation option, IV sedation.
And we have an upper tier which will be general anesthesia. We also do that in the office. These are for patients who requires a very intensive full-mouth reconstruction. Well, actually the patient needs to be intubated and we have to spend a whole day to reconstruct their whole maxilla mandible and it’s a very involved surgery. But we have that option as well, will be completely out, but then just like, in the operating room.
Most of our patients, about 90% of our patients, they go with the IV sedation option because most patients are very nervous and they need a lot of work and that will be the best option for them is to be completely sedated, completely asleep throughout the procedure, get it all done and they go home and wake up and, well, don’t remember anything. It’s the best day ever. But yeah, so these are the three options of sedations we have. And the fourth one, of course, is general anesthesia for more intense cases.