Sedation Dentistry DC Caters To Cowards, Those with Dental Phobias and Fears
The best Washington, DC dentists use a variety of different procedures including sedation dentistry to make their patients comfortable and relaxed while having to sit still in a dentist’s chair with someone’s fingers in their mouth which is a very uncomfortable feeling and horrifying feeling for many people.
Sedation dentistry could be administered one of several ways; the first is through an IV.
However this poses its own problems because many of the dental patients who are afraid of the dentist are also afraid of needles. There is also a ‘needle free’ IV sedation which is a type of patch that releases the sedation medication through the patient’s skin and works just as well. There is also nitrous oxide or laughing gas that is breathed in through a tiny tube placed under the nose which renders if a patient is sleepy but not asleep and sometimes happy and laughing.
Sedation drugs including nitrous oxide, depressants, tranquilizers, anti-anxiety medicines, and a special formula of a mixture of different drugs could be administered in various ways to a patient who has a fear of dentists. IV sedation was the popular choice of the past but now gases are easier and less messy to deal with for both the dentists and dental hygienist and the patient receives no bruising from needles, which is also another common phobia – fear of needles.
Oral sedation is the number one used technique in both the United States and Canada in order to address and calm a patient’s phobias and fears of going to the dentist. Proper oral hygiene is the foundation for many hidden diseases such as diabetes, some forms of cancer and other health concerns. A patient’s gums can tell a story about what is hidden in the body that some traditional testing might miss.
Another newer procedure that dentists are now performing is called Air Abrasion which treats decay with air. A high powered fine spray of aluminum oxide powder will precisely and gently remove dental decay from one’s teeth without the use of a high-powered drill – and who wouldn’t rather have an air pressured machine than a drill in their mouth?


