Oral Conscious Sedation
Oral conscious sedation comes in the form of a prescription pill your dentist can prescribe that you can pick up at your local pharmacy. The sedative can be taken an hour before your visit to help you relax. Transportation will need to be arranged to take you back home.
The patient is generally awake and responds to the doctor throughout the visit. The patient will feel relaxed, comfortable, lethargic, and possibly a little euphoric as you drift into a waking dream-like state. Some patients do relax enough to fall asleep, but you will be easily awakened.
Oral conscious sedation is not the same as general anesthesia, although the medication does produce some amnesic effects. Before you know it you will be all done, and you will be able to smile knowing you made the right decision coming to Apollo Dental in Ballantyne. Contact Dr. Seth to learn more about our options for sedation.
The sedative will make you feel drowsy and this would be completely pain-free.
This may anywhere from 2 to 8 hours and the exact time depends on the type of drug administered.
The process of oral sedation consists of anti-anxiety medication and it is perfectly safe for the patients.
This sedation is administered directly into the bloodstream. After 2 or 3 minutes you experience the pain breezes away.
It may last to 4 to 6 hours but still you may feel numbness for the next 24 hours.
This will make you feel more comfortable and truly relaxed before and during the dental treatment without any discomfort.
The dental sedation method can last from two to eight hours after the dental process and it also depends on the type of drug as well that is used.
Under sedation, you will feel drowsy, comfortable, sleepy, and relaxed but you remain conscious throughout the dental process.
This will not make you sleep during your dental treatment however you will not feel any pain.
The sedation is not scary and you will not feel any pain, intravenous sedation is the best relaxation technique for sedation.
These are the following:
- Feeling sick
- Low blood pressure
- Loss of memory of what happened during the procedure
- Feeling sluggishness