Are you feeling stressed about your upcoming dental treatment? Or are you most of the time worried about how would you pass the time or handle the pain that you would have to endure later? Then you can stop worrying now, as sedation is here to help and reduce your anxiety. This is used for simple procedures such as plaque removal and all. This helps you to relax on the dentist chair during the treatment.
Sedation dentistry helps to relax the patient with the help of medications. The dentists mostly use nitrogen oxide, or in other words, the laughing gas. During the process, patients would be awake but still feel relaxed. There are different amounts of the gas used, depending upon the situation.
You would encounter many types of sedation which are given below-
There are many conditions where the patient may require sedation such as low-pain threshold, anxiety, sensitive teeth, difficulty in staying still and so on.
Mostly, dentists use sedation from the range of minimum to moderate otherwise they prefer to give local anesthesia to the patient.
Only an expert knows what is right and what is wrong in his field of expertise. To make sure that your dentist knows how to use sedation, you can ask him/her the following things
If you are still not feeling sure, then contact Aqua Dental and ask for further guidance.
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