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Patients now have more of a reason to smile with advancements in sedation and laser dentistry. Visiting the dentist can bring up feelings of anxiety for various reasons, but your dentist can help to reduce these feelings and pain through the use of sedation and laser dentistry. Sedation dentistry allows you to relax and feel sleepy during your dental procedure in order to create an easy treatment with minimal pain or anxiety, while laser dentistry opens the door for dentists to perform a wide variety of dental procedures faster and with more precision compared to other dental procedures. Both types of dentistry enable you to receive dental care you need while avoiding any dental phobia you might have. No longer do you have to avoid going to the dentist and putting your oral health in jeopardy. Laser Dentistry Laser dentistry can be a precise and effective way to perform many dental procedures. In addition, it allows for treatment of highly specific areas of focus without damaging the surrounding tissues. If you consider yourself an anxious person seeking extreme safety and comfort while undergoing treatment, you might consider looking into laser dentistry. It is estimated that six percent of general dentists own a laser for soft-tissue applications, with that number continually rising over time. Benefits of laser dentistry include:
• Procedures are performed using soft tissue dental lasers may not require stitches.
• Certain laser dentistry procedures do not require anesthesia.
• Laser dentistry minimizes bleeding because the high-energy light beam aids in the clotting of exposed blood vessels, thus inhibiting blood loss.
• Damage to surrounding tissue is minimized.
• Wounds heal faster and tissues can be regenerated.
• Bacterial infections are minimized because the high-energy beam sterilizes the area being worked on. Sedation Dentistry This is the process in which your dentist establishes a relaxed, easy and calm state for your procedure through the use of sedatives which can be administered in a variety of ways. One of the ways is through intravenous (IV) sedation, which is when the sedatives are delivered via injection into the blood vessels of your hand or arm. Sedation dentistry has evolved to be an even more relaxing experience today, giving patients an alternative to traditional methods of inhalation and IVs. The no needle approach has been proven to be more appealing to patients than previous methods. Oral sedation dentistry has become one of the most common techniques used in the United States and Canada to calm patient fears and make for minimal pain procedures. The medications used during procedures create a comfortable experience for you, which may make it so that you do not remember much about your visit to your dentist's office. Although sedation is not like anesthesia, it may raise your pain tolerance. Most dental procedures will still require a local anesthetic to go along with sedation, to ensure painless treatment. The local anesthetic will temporarily block pain impulses from your affected tooth and gum tissue. If you are in need of a dental procedure, but are having anxiety speak with your Prior Lake dentist for more information on how sedation and laser dentistry can help you through the process. Sedation and laser dentistry are not for everyone, nor is it appropriate for every procedure, but with proper consultation, your dentist can find the best solution to ease the pain.
Sean Hartmen writes for leading Prior Lake children''s dentist, Dr. Thomas Morgan. Offering a wide spectrum of services including dental implants, teeth whitening, sedation dentistry and Invisalign, Dr. Morgan, dentist in Prior Lake, MN, is qualified to handle any dental need for patients of all ages.
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