Who can benefit from sleep dentistry?
Anyone with the following can benefit from some form of sleep dentistry: People with severe fears or phobias about dental work; People with uncontrollable or severe gag reflexes that cannot receive care in the traditional manner; People with medical conditions that make dental care in the traditional manner unsafe or uncomfortable; People who are unable to use local anesthetics (lidocaine, mepivicaine, articaine, bupivicaine, prilocaine, etc.) to get numb; People who cannot get numb; People who wish a great deal of care to be done at a single visit. 6. What is dental phobia? The word phobia means “fear” or “dread.” It is an extreme, and often debilitating, fear. Dental phobia indicates a fear of dentistry so strong that it prevents a person from even visiting a dentist. The fear itself can have many causes. In its simplest form, the fear is based on unpleasant or painful experiences with dental care in the past. Most often these experiences occur when a person is very young and highly
