Sedation & Nervous Patients
Don’t let fear stand in the way of getting the dental care you need. We understand that some of our patients experience dental anxiety. It’s okay, we have options to make your visit to our practice more comfortable.
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We try to be accommodating to all of our patients’ needs.
Our waiting area is set up for patient comfort and our welcoming staff treats each of our patients like a friend. As your friend, we would like to offer you some tips on how to have a successful visit (even with a fear of the dentist!):Conscious Sedation at Hutton Village Dental Practice
Our dental practice has a highly experienced team able to provide conscious sedation to help especially anxious patients.
Conscious Sedation can help patients to continue with receiving a high quality of general dentistry treatment that otherwise they might be too anxious to go ahead with elsewhere.
For some patients, Conscious Sedation may be useful to make more advanced or complex procedures more manageable.
Over time as patients’ confidence grows in receiving dental treatment, patients who might have been previously very anxious, may feel they able to have some dental treatments without sedation, knowing there is still the option for sedation for more involved procedures.
Sedation is an advanced technique where we administer a sedative, typically through an intravenous (IV) cannula. Sedation is tailored to your dental needs and safety, in order to calm and relax you so that we can complete your dental treatment to a high standard.
For patients under Conscious Sedation, they still maintain their vital and responsive reflexes, such as breathing, swallowing or coughing.
During the procedure you will feel more relaxed making treatment much more manageable and comfortable. IV Conscious Sedation can cause some short term amnesia as a side effect which helps some patients to forget the procedure.
We wait until you are relaxed and comfortably sedated before starting the dental procedure and we will still numb up your mouth for treatment where needed.
Our practice has a great tradition in the provision of conscious sedation for nervous patients. Our general dentists are experienced in sedating and caring for sedation patients and our team regularly completes sedation-specific training sessions to strengthen our skills so we can provide you with a safe and successful experience.