dental sedation

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.735 Sedation dentistry: what is it? 00:00:01.869 --> 00:00:03.904 Sedation dentistry is when you come in, 00:00:03.971 --> 00:00:07.007 you take a couple pills orally that helps put you... 00:00:07.407 --> 00:00:08.742 Some people call it twilight. 00:00:09.943 --> 00:00:12.246 I'm certainly able to talk to you. 00:00:12.713 --> 00:00:15.315 I'm able to make sure that you're comfortable during the procedure. 00:00:15.749 --> 00:00:17.751 But the medication has an amnesia effect 00:00:17.885 --> 00:00:21.088 so that the person tends not to remember all the details of the appointment, 00:00:21.221 --> 00:00:22.623 makes it go much quicker for you, 00:00:22.689 --> 00:00:26.627 and allows for us to get a lot of work done. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.062 For some people, that's the reason why we'll do it. 00:00:29.329 --> 00:00:31.598 Sometimes it's just simply because person's anxious. 00:00:31.665 --> 00:00:35.502 It certainly takes the anxiety out of a dental appointment. 00:00:35.669 --> 00:00:37.871 There are different levels sedation we can offer. 00:00:38.005 --> 00:00:44.244 Nitrous oxide is a very simple way to decrease anxiety. 00:00:44.378 --> 00:00:45.913 It doesn't put a person to sleep, 00:00:46.547 --> 00:00:50.684 and person's able to come in and leave on their own accord. 00:00:50.751 --> 00:00:52.452 You don't have to have anyone drive you. 00:00:52.753 --> 00:00:54.922 To ensure safety during our procedures, 00:00:55.022 --> 00:00:57.858 we have you hooked up to monitors that are always monitoring 00:00:57.958 --> 00:00:59.426 throughout the entire procedure. 00:00:59.493 --> 00:01:02.629 The feedback I get about conscious sedation is really great 00:01:02.729 --> 00:01:04.598 because it really takes someone, 00:01:04.665 --> 00:01:08.135 oftentimes that has been avoiding the dentist for years and years, 00:01:08.669 --> 00:01:10.070 and now we can get them back in 00:01:10.170 --> 00:01:13.640 to our routine checkups in clinics and keep them up with things. 00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:16.210 Frankly, therefore, they're less likely to have 00:01:16.276 --> 00:01:20.147 as many issues going on after we get through that initial process.