Oral surgery can help take on serious oral health issues and protect your smile, and we want to make sure this is a comfortable experience! Our team wants to help ensure your jawbone grafting, gum grafts, and even dental implant placement is comfortable. In today’s blog, your team at Cerritos Dental Surgery talks about how we offer comfortable oral surgery with sedation dentistry.
Nitrous Oxide
One of the most common ways we ensure comfortable oral surgery with sedation involves nitrous oxide. This is a mild option that is safe for all ages, from kids to adults. We will administer this through a mask over your nose. You will breathe in the gas and enter a deep state of calm and relaxation. However, patients will remain conscious and able to respond to the dentist as needed, often with little to no memory of the process. Our team can adjust sedation levels during your procedure, and the effects wear off quickly. Once the procedure ends, you could even drive yourself home or return to work or school.
Oral Conscious
If you need a deeper state of calming, which could help people undergoing more extensive treatments like dental implant placement or wisdom tooth extraction, or for those with extreme anxiety, we could discuss oral conscious sedation. With this option, you should avoid food and drink for a few hours before the procedure and we will likely schedule it for the morning. When you arrive, you will take the calming agent in a pill or liquid form, and enter a deep state of calm, with no memory of the process. You still remain conscious however, but are comfortable throughout the procedure. The effects take time to wear off, so be sure you have someone available to take you home afterward! This can help ensure a comfortable treatment experience.
IV
The deepest form of sedation we offer is intravenous. IV is administered before the procedure and again we will likely ask you to fast briefly beforehand. You enter a deep and sleep-like state, with no memory of the process at all. Again, this is helpful for those with a fear of the dentist or for those undergoing more extensive procedures. This can help ensure your oral surgery experience is a comfortable one. The effects take time to wear off, so you will need someone on hand to take you home afterward.
With all of these options, we will provide aftercare instructions and if necessary, prescriptions for medications to aid in the healing process. If you have any questions about how sedation helps ensure comfortable oral surgery, then contact our team today.
TALK TO OUR TEAM ABOUT ENJOYING A CALM TREATMENT EXPERIENCE
To schedule a consultation for a comfortable oral surgery experience, then make an appointment with Cerritos Dental Surgery in California call 562-584-4082 today.
