What Patients are Appropriate for Sedation Dentistry?
Patients with anxiety. With conscious oral sedation, the patient will seldom remember much about the procedure. Their anxiety often falls to a very low level and can actually become a relaxed dental patient. Patients who have put off needed treatment, or who abandoned treatment plans Patients who suffer from acute or chronic jaw soreness. These patients can comfortably be treated for several hours. The sedation medication has a muscle relaxation property. By using dental sedation in combination with frequent resting time, even these patients can have extensive treatment completed in one visit comfortably and they experience little to no jaw soreness post-operatively. Patients who have a gag reflex. Many patients may have avoided the dentist for years due to embarrassment, but with sedation dentistry they can have their perio, restorative and cosmetic dentistry work done, sometimes in the same appointment. Patients with physical limitations such as back or neck problems. Dental sedation
