Vanquish Your Fear with Sedation Dentistry

ARE you afraid of the dentist? Well, you're not alone! But did you know there's a way of conquering the fears that may have kept you from visiting your dentist for necessary treatment? Using the techniques of sedation dentistry, your dentist can ease your apprehension, and even make the entire experience pain-free. 

 

At Dr Joy Dental Clinic, we have two IV Sedation Dentists available for performing IV Sedation Dentistry right at our convenient location at Jumeirah & Umm Sequim branch.  IV Sedation is a very safe and effective method of sedation that is also referred to as deep conscious sedation or relaxation dentistry.  
 

It is a form of moderate sedation where the patient receives the sedative drug directly through a vein, so it goes to work very quickly.  It allows the dentist to continually adjust the level of sedation, allowing unprecedented control over the relaxation levels, combined with a profound amnesia.  Depending on the amount of sedative you receive, you will feel extremely relaxed, drowsy, or you may fall asleep completely. This type of sedation requires a responsible adult to drive the patient to and from their appointment, and spend some time with them afterwards until the sedative wears off completely.  In addition to the IV Sedation, the doctors at Dr Joy Dental Clinic will typically also use a local anaesthetic, or numbing medication at the site to eliminate or alleviate the pain of the procedure may cause any discomfort.  Because the patient is in an extreme state of relaxation, it is possible for the dentist to achieve year worth of dental work in a single visit. 

 

While paediatric dentistry has made great strides in making young patients’ dental visit experiences more relaxing, some children and teenagers still have difficulty with anxiety. Their anxiety, in turn, can make necessary care much harder to provide. 

 

For difficult cases, many dental providers for children now incorporate a technique known as conscious sedation to help ease anxiety. With this technique, they’re able to perform procedures like cavity-filling or tooth extraction that are more difficult with an anxiety-prone patient.

 

While general anaesthesia creates a total loss of consciousness, conscious sedation uses precise medications to suppress consciousness at different levels ranging from light to deep suppression and create a relaxed state for the patient.

 

Conscious sedation is becoming a more widespread technique in both medicine and dentistry. Using it to ease a child’s anxiety increases the chances they’ll receive all the dental care they need without unpleasant memories of their visit that could follow them into later life.

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