Sedation Dentistry
Smile Makeover Specialist
Las Vegas, NV
If you are one of the millions of Americans who avoids dental treatment because of dental anxiety, you can be healthier and happier through sedation dentistry.
In dentistry, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure, and if your anxiety keeps you from making your regular dental appointments, you can have a worsening of dental problems, including tooth decay, periodontal (gum) disease, endodontic disease leading to tooth loss, and eventually the dissolution of your jawbone. Poor dental health can also lead to poor digestive health as well as blood-borne bacterial infections that can lead to major organ failure. This is above and beyond the cosmetic effect of discolored, chipped, and cracked teeth. For people with serious dental anxiety, even a simple tooth whitening can give pause.
However, sedation dentistry allows you to overcome your nervousness of the dentist's office so you can come in for both preventive and cosmetic treatment. Sedation dentistry relieves your anxiety so that you can have the dental treatment you need, and it is "conscious" dentistry, which means you are completely awake and able to respond to the dentist's questions and requests, only you will be relaxed and anxiety-free. In addition, the sedation has an amnesiac effect, meaning that the brain doesn't remember the actual work done, reducing the psychological or psychosomatic effects of dental work.
Sedation dentistry has numerous benefits, including:
- It reduces your anxiety about going to the dentist.
- It reduces your anxiety about not going to the dentist and worrying what treatment you will need.
- It allows you to receive necessary dental care that anxiety would otherwise prevent.
- It allows you to get less expensive preventative treatment rather than more expensive restorative treatment later.
- It allows pain-free treatment for people who otherwise have trouble getting numb.
- If you do need restorative treatment, fewer visits to the dentist are required with sedation, since more can be done at once.
- When you are relaxed during dental work, there is less tooth and gum stress caused by you "fighting" the dentist by biting down on bite blocks or other dental restraints.
- Finally, sedation dentistry promotes a positive attitude toward dental visits, which makes it easier to get future work done.
All of these benefits help you to achieve better dental health and/or get the smile makeover you desire.
Tim Kuiava, DDS, utilizes the one-pill conscious sedation method. In this method, you take one pill an hour before coming to the dentist, and by the time you arrive, you have achieved a state that is known as anxiolysis, or the reduction of anxiety. Your sedation will continue to increase until you achieve the state of conscious sedation, in which you will be alert and active, able to respond to the doctor, but you will not experience pain, and you will not remember the procedure.
If dental anxiety has kept you away from the dentist far too long, contact Dr. Tim Kuiava today to learn how conscious sedation dentistry can help you achieve the healthy, beautiful smile you've long desired.
