Sedation Dentistry in London

What are the Benefits of Sedation in Dentistry?

At Dental Care Centre, our expert dental specialists provide pain-free dental care through sedation. Dental sedation offers the following benefits:

Comfortable dental treatment: Pain during dental treatment can increase anxiety and nervousness. Sedation dentistry relaxes patients during dental procedures by minimising discomfort and pain.

Manage dental phobia: Most patients do not visit dentists due to fear of dental procedures and instruments. Sedative dentistry controls all these fears through anxiety control medication.

Improve treatment efficiency: if the patient is nervous, they may not allow the practitioner to continue the procedure. Sedative dentistry controls all these mishaps, provides a smooth, efficient comfortable dental treatment, and keeps patients relaxed throughout dental procedures.

Better patient compliance: Pain-free and comfortable dental treatment controls patient phobia, increases patient co-operation, and provides a pleasant experience to encourage the patients to maintain regular check-ups and good oral health.

Extend treatment time: in complex and lengthy dental procedures such as dental implant placement, gum surgery, and bone grafting, sedation dentistry provides comfortable and pain-free treatment to allow for the completion of lengthy procedures. In children’s dental treatment, sedative dentistry extends the option of dental treatment such as children’s milk teeth can be restored with filling rather than extraction as the child feels no pain.

Sedation Dentistry Solutions

During sedation, anxiety and pain-control medicine are provided to control patients’ anxiety and discomfort during dental treatment in different ways.

Inhalation: Nitrous oxide also known as laughing gas is used to control patient anxiety through the nasal route with the help of a mask. Nitrous oxide Inhalation sedation is the safest and most efficient sedation. It calms the patient and keeps them relaxed during dental treatment. The patient recovers from its effects soon after its distribution through oxygen administration. You are capable of walking out of the clinic without assistance.

Intravenous: The anxiety control medication is injected through veins. Mostly midazolam a relaxing medication is injected to control the patient’s nervousness. It is commonly recommended by dentists in hyperactive patients with excessive dental phobia, it provides patients with deep relaxation and comfort during dental procedures. If our experts choose this sedation technique, ensure to arrange a ride home.

Procedure for Safe and Effective Sedation

Dental Care Centre is London’s leading clinic that provides patients comfortable dental care with sedative dentistry. Our trained dental specialists systemically administer sedative agents by making a treatment plan and taking all the precautionary measures to make the sedation administration safe and effective.

Initial assessment
Our dental expert first takes a complete medical, and dental history by asking questions about medication allergies, systemic diseases such as epilepsy or lung infection, past dental history, or experience with sedation.
After this complete dental examination, an evaluation of the need for complex dental procedures, an estimate of the treatment duration, and the assessment of patient cooperation. Access the patient’s willingness to perform dental treatment without sedation, after discussing the duration and complexity of the dental procedure.

Selection using the appropriate sedation method
After all the documentation process, our dental specialist selects the appropriate sedative method (inhale or intravenous) according to the patient’s medical condition, treatment needs, duration of treatment, and patient cooperation.

Patient consent
Our expert dental consultant, explains to patient in detail the need for sedation in performing effective dental procedures. Inform the patient about different sedative options, their advantages, potential risks, and limitations. Then explain the steps of sedation administration till recovery and aftercare.
After explaining all the important points ask the patient to sign a consent form and ensure that he is aware of all the steps of the sedation process and understands post-operative instructions.

Pre-operative preparation
Pre-operative preparation for the patient includes instructing the patient to have a meal 4 hours before sedation to avoid vomiting and take all the pre-existing medication such as diabetic control medication, and anti-hypertension medication as per scheduled.
Our staff is equipped with all devices to monitor vital, oxygen levels during sedation administration, and take immediate response to respond to any dental emergency.

Sedation administration
The sedation drug is administered according to patient and dental treatment needs. Our experts follow protocols of the recommended dose of sedative medicines, closely monitor the patient’s anxiety level, and then start the treatment with a local anesthesia injection. Sedation dentistry can control anxiety and mild pain for complete pain-free dental treatment; however, local anesthesia is also required.

Post-recovery monitor and after-care instructions
After completing the dental treatment, our dental specialists monitor the patient’s consciousness level and take vitals. Inhaled sedation patients recover within 30 minutes after dental treatment, while intravenous sedation takes around 24 hours for complete recovery. You may be informed of temporary mild drowsiness and headache that persists briefly.

Our experts will explain post-operative instructions, such as starting a liquid and soft diet and taking a normal hard diet after local anesthesia numbness recovery.

All these steps are necessary to reduce the risk associated with sedative dentistry. Dental sedatives provide the safest most effective and pain-free dental treatment.

Sedation dentistry is an advanced technique that controls patient nervousness and anxiety with dental procedures. In the Dental Care Centre, our expert dental specialists make a systemic treatment plan to administrate the sedation process to make it safe, reduce the risk, and provide a calm relaxed, and effective dental procedure.