Smithfield Dental’s Oral Sedation Process
Smithfield Dental respects this natural fear that some patients have for dentists and dental care procedures.For this reason we offer oral sedation services to put aside this very natural anxiety that many people associate with the dental care process. The oral sedation procedure itself is safe and painless as it does not require the use of needles.
Through the use of sedative medication (usually prescribed in the form of a pill), the dental procedure will not begin until a significant and measured sedative (relaxing) effect is felt. A very high percentage of our patients say they don’t even recall the application (injection) of local anesthetics or the dental procedure itself. It is as if they slept right through it.
But the fact is the patient never actually looses consciousness or the ability to communicate. This is the beauty of oral sedation services. Our patients enjoy an essentially pain free procedure without the elevated risk of full general anesthesia.
Benefits of Oral Sedation:
Avoiding preventative and corrective dental care is a proven health risk. Oral sedation “speeds up the process” from a patient’s point of view. Extended treatments (one hour or longer) seem to take only minutes. Dental research has proven that oral sedation is the key to motivating a regular dental health care regiment for the anxiety-prone patients.
