Sedation dentistry can feel like a godsend for people who are ordinarily too nervous to get necessary dental care. If you’re someone who forgoes preventive care because of dental anxiety, sedatives may make it much easier to get to regular appointments.
However, there are other benefits to sedation dentistry beyond just its capacity to deal with dental anxiety. Even if you aren’t particularly scared of the dentist, you may be able to benefit from the merits that they have to offer. Here are a few examples.
Sedation Dentistry for Multiple Procedures
If you haven’t been to the dentist’s in a while, the next time you go you might have a few oral health problems to deal with. This may necessitate several different restorative procedures.
Most dentists know that patients have trouble sitting through long procedures, so they tend to split these treatments across several appointments. While this makes getting treated a lot more tolerable, it also makes things take a lot longer.
If you want to expedite your dental treatment, sedation dentistry can help. You’ll be able to sit still for longer, which makes completed several treatments considerably easier.
Sedation Dentistry and Patient Cooperation
In a similar vein, sedation can make communication between dentist and patient considerably easier. Even if you have every intention of being a good patient, it can be hard to focus on following dentist instructions for a few hours at a time.
Sedation dentistry makes dentistry not only relaxing, but considerably more enjoyable. This means that you’re likely to be a much more cooperative patient, and the treatment considerably faster.
How Sedatives Deal with Physical Reactions
In some instances, patients have problems with dentistry that have nothing to do with fear but can still stand in the way of good oral healthcare. A good example is people with strong gag reflexes who may involuntarily respond to having fingers placed in their mouth.
Sedatives do a pretty good job of relaxing people like this, helping them to respond a bit better to dental treatment. In that way, sedatives can make a massive difference for both these patients and their dentists.
About Our Practice
At Danville Pediatrics & Orthodontics, we are enormously proud of our ability to help children of all ages to love oral healthcare. Whether your child needs serious oral healthcare or just a dentist that will make them comfortable at a checkup, we will go the extra mile to make sure that everything goes as smoothly for them as possible.
If you have any questions about sedation dentistry, we can be reached at our website or by phone at (925) 575-8878.