Despite the modern dental technology that should be painless, a large number of patients,because of fear of pain, avoid any dental work.

Today it is possible to avoid the fear during dental treatments, with the help of anesthesia or dental conscious sedation.

What is anesthesia?

Anesthesia is a condition of temporary inability to feel pain – used in dental medicine to temporarily numb the nerves preventing the feeling of pain within the dental cavity during the procedure.

Patients often believe that anesthesia is just one general drug that is applied in every situation when it is necessary to temporarily eliminate the pain. In fact, several different medications are used to allow a relaxed and visit your dental medicine doctor. Some medications are in charge of controlling the pain, some help you feel more relaxed while others help you fall into a state of “deep sleep”, most commonly used in larger dental procedures. Anesthesia helps patients and dental medicine doctors – it prevents patients from feeling pain, while it guarantees dental medicine doctors that the patient will remain calm during the whole procedure.

What types of anesthesia do we use in our center?

At Orto-nova we use local anesthesia and a combination of local anesthesia and dental sedation, which is also called conscious sedation because the patient remains relaxed, awake and partially amnestic after the procedure.

Local anesthesia uses local anesthetic in an exact area of the oral cavity to prevent pain during dental surgery. Local anesthetic temporarily blocks the nerves that are responsible for the pain transfer.

The use of local anesthesia in dental medicine is very wide – it is used in a variety of procedures such as cavity treatment or gum disease.

Dental sedation uses intravenous medications (moderate sedation) or inhaled gases (minimal sedation) that individually give the impression that the time has passed quickly as if the procedure was slept off.

Which type of sedation will be used depends on the type of dental procedure. Pressure monitoring, pulse and oxygen saturation is a compulsory part of the sedation technique. It represents the first choice for patients who want to be unconscious of the pain and discomfort they otherwise feel.

Is anesthesia safe?

Dental medicine doctors all over the world use the above techniques safely every day to eliminate the feeling of discomfort and fear in patients. However, taking any type of medication involves a certain dose of risk. Severe complications are very rare, even in patients with impaired health status.

Who supervises the patient during dental sedation?

Since patients safety always comes first, all dental procedures involving dental sedation are carefully monitored by a anesthesiology and resuscitation specialist. The anesthesiology and resuscitation specialist also evaluates whether the patient is fully awake at the end of the procedure and whether the vital functions are stable.

What kind of anesthesia you choose depends entirely on you. In consultation with our doctors of dental medicine, we make an individual plan for each patient, taking into account the overall health status of the patient, the type of intervention required, as well as the patient’s wishes.

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