Sedation Dentistry

[00:00:00.115] My name is Dr. Michael Haight. [00:00:01.587] I'm a practicing dentist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, [00:00:04.157] and I practice at Parkway Dental. [00:00:05.900] One of the major reasons that patients avoid seeing the dentist [00:00:08.658] is just anxiety, the fear of the unknown. [00:00:12.586] Is this going to hurt? How much time is it going to take? [00:00:16.971] The good news in dentistry is we have the way to help those patients [00:00:21.187] get through anxiety through sedation. [00:00:23.841] There's different levels of sedation that can be offered now. [00:00:26.357] Yeah, so typically, the patient that receives sedation is somebody, [00:00:30.115] of course, first that's anxious, but also a patient that's going to need [00:00:33.572] a lot of dental work done, specifically for these all on X cases [00:00:38.114] where we're removing unhealthy teeth, we're replacing missing teeth. [00:00:43.114] But also can be used if patients have multiple teeth with decay [00:00:46.958] and they're going to need crowns and other restorations done. [00:00:50.500] We can also use sedation to help those patients [00:00:53.554] get that dental work done in one visit, decrease their anxiety [00:00:58.214] and help them have a better experience. [00:01:00.400] Yeah, so oral sedation is typically some tablet that the patient would take. [00:01:04.187] It's an anti-anexiolithic that typically [00:01:07.257] they would take the night before to help them rest. [00:01:10.086] Then normally, they would take that same tablet [00:01:12.258] one hour prior to the appointment. [00:01:14.471] Oral sedation is going to be more just to help calm them down, [00:01:19.043] to help them get through the door and help them just relax. [00:01:23.501] They're going to be aware of everything that's done during the procedure. [00:01:27.314] They'll know what we're doing. We'll be able to converse with them. [00:01:30.629] Yeah, other levels of sedation [00:01:32.001] that we offer in our practice is IV sedation as well. [00:01:36.600] That would be administered, of course, in an IV. [00:01:41.029] The benefit of that is we can administer meds that are really going to decrease, [00:01:45.815] substantially decrease that patient's anxiety. [00:01:49.029] We typically get a little bit of amnesia effect, [00:01:52.257] which you probably won't remember [00:01:55.886] everything that happened in that procedure. [00:01:58.329] Sometimes that's good to just have a little bit of a piece of your life [00:02:02.086] that you don't quite remember, especially when you have a lot of anxiety [00:02:05.215] and fear associated with that. [00:02:07.329] The other benefit of IV sedation is we can give them some medications [00:02:10.258] that help them with pain during, help them with pain after, [00:02:14.257] and also decrease inflammation [00:02:16.429] so that they have just quicker healing times. [00:02:18.943] What we try to do to help patient's anxiety [00:02:21.818] is certainly have an environment [00:02:23.957] that's conducive to just feeling comfortable. [00:02:27.157] We want the patient when they walk through the door, [00:02:29.714] to feel like they're in a familiar place. [00:02:32.400] We want to treat them [00:02:33.630] like they're friends that we've known forever. [00:02:37.000] We want them to feel good about where they're at [00:02:39.614] and that we're going to take good care of them [00:02:42.629] and visit with them how we can do that, [00:02:44.657] how we can make that patient experience comfortable, [00:02:47.371] that we can help them with their anxiety [00:02:50.243] and the methods in which we do that. [00:02:52.114] If you have fear of going to the dentist or you have dental anxiety, [00:02:56.086] please call our office for a free consultation [00:02:58.886] so that we can help you get back what you have lost [00:03:02.071] with the use of sedation.