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Can You Eat or Drink Before Dental Sedation?
May 16, 2018
There are many forms of dental sedation and many reasons each option is used on a specific patient or during a certain dental procedure. Because sedation is a form of medication, you may wonder if you can eat or drink before you’re sedated. The answer, as with most things, is that it depends. As caring […]
9 Reasons You Might Not Be a Good Candidate for Dental Sedation
March 28, 2018
The vast majority of dental patients can use some form of sedation during a dental procedure to help reduce fears, calm anxieties or get through a long procedure with less stress. To make sure you’re a good candidate for any form of dental sedation, it’s important to share your full medical history with your trusted […]
A Brief History of Dental Sedation
June 28, 2017
For as long as there have been dentists, there have been people afraid of dental procedures. While medications, concoctions, and procedures have been around for a few thousand years to help reduce pain, it’s only been in the past two hundred years or so that medical science has developed options to help with fear and […]
What is IV Sedation in Dentistry?
May 31, 2017
For patients who are desperately afraid of injections, going to the dentist or getting a wisdom tooth pulled or a root canal is agony in more than just the obvious ways. You laugh at laughing gas, and there’s not enough pills to help you calm down before the procedure. Instead of giving up on having […]
