Sleep Dentistry: For Patients With Limited Time
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If you’re an executive who couldn’t spend a whole day in the dentist’s office for a complex dental procedure, you’re not alone in your dilemma. Getting your teeth fixed is as important as that next business conference. You wouldn’t want to be bothered by a nasty toothache in the middle of the board meeting. Dealing with a complex dental case, as in a procedure that will require 2 or 3 visits, can be done in one visit. It is possible with today’s dental innovations. Sleep dentistry gives you a better option to have an extended dental treatment done in half or whole day.
What is sleep dentistry?
Sleep dentistry is dental procedure that will put the patient in complete sleep by administering general anesthesia or intravenous (IV) sedation. The patient will feel no pain, completely unaware of his surroundings and has no recall of the procedure. Dentistry utilizing anesthesia or sedation is a safe way to reduce the fatigue of extended dental treatment requiring long visits.
There are two methods of administering sleep dentistry: one is intravenous (IV) sedation and the other is general anesthesia. With IV sedation, the anesthesiologist administers varying amounts of sedative medication through an intravenous line. IV is fast acting and can be controlled by increasing or decreasing the medication depending on the patient’s needs. General anesthesia, on the other hand, produces a state of complete sleep different from one would normally experience because it blocks all memories and inhibit normal body reflexes to pain making the dental procedure easier to perform. The effects last for several hours after the treatment is complete. The patient will remain in the clinic until he is completely awake.
So, the next time you find yourself needing a complex dental procedure in the middle of a hectic schedule at work, you can choose to have a sleep dentistry procedure to complete the treatment with fewer visits to the dentist’s office.
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