Sedation Dentist Plantation FL
Imagine undergoing years' worth of dental work all while being sedated. A top-rated sedation dentist for patients, in the Fort Lauderdale area, who has a history of psychological or physical trauma that prevents them from receiving needed dental treatment?
When we meet our patients in real life, we try to unearth their dental and life stories and tell our own as implant and sedation dentists. The end goal is to find out if we can help them.
In this process of knowing each other tap into the underlying reason patients develop dental issues and why they have decided to come to see us – to get to be the very best version of themselves; a version they have always had within them that got lost along the way. We make it easy to make appointments online.
Oral Sedation
For patients who wish to remain conscious during treatment, sedation dentistry offers a safe and reliable technique for making dental visits comfortable and relaxing without putting the patient to sleep. Thanks to mild oral sedation pills, an alternative to IV sedation and general anesthesia.
How Oral Sedation Works
This type of sedation dentistry begins when the doctor administers a small, custom-prescribed pill shortly before treatment. Soon after swallowing the pill, the patient eases into an anxiety-free state. Patients who undergo oral Sedation Dentistry remain aware of their surroundings and yet feel calm and relaxed throughout their time in the treatment chair.
Many patients find that oral sedation dentistry allows them to undergo dental treatments and procedures they would have never before been able to tolerate. Oral sedation dentistry is an especially promising alternative for our younger patients or for people whose dental anxiety may only be exacerbated by the use of numbing injections or IV sedation. If you live in the Fort Lauderdale area interested in learning more about oral sedation dentistry call the number above.
IV Conscious Sedation Dentistry
IV-conscious sedation dentistry allows patients to undergo one or more procedures while they remain sedated of anxiety. This effect is achieved by using intravenous medication to calm the patient into a sedated state for the duration of the treatment. State-of-the-art monitoring equipment is used to ensure that patients are always safe and comfortable, and all of the anesthesiology is administered by Florida board-certified dentists in IV conscious Sedation.
IV sedation is indicated when the patient is apprehensive and/or does not want to remember anything when going to the dentist.
IV Sedation Dentistry Applications and Benefits
For many patients, a typical IV sedation dentistry visit may include deep cleanings, crowns, and multi-specialty treatments such as LANAP laser gum therapy, wisdom teeth removal, root canals, and dental implants. The anesthesia technique selection is based on each individual's needs and desires.
The most obvious advantage of conscious IV anesthesia is to allow the patient to undergo multiple dental procedures, all while being sedated. In general, these sedated patients do not want to remember anything when going to the dentist.
Inhalants Sedation (Gas)
Instead of receiving medication intravenously through a vein, patients can opt to receive their sedation medication through the simple process of inhalation (anesthetics in the form of gas). A small mask attached to a tube is placed over the patient’s nose in order to administer the gas medication. Nitrous oxide, which is more commonly referred to as laughing gas, is one of the most common types of inhalants used in dentistry.