Regular dental care is essential to keep your teeth, gums, and oral tissues healthy and disease-free. When you have fear or anxiety about visiting a dentist, you may avoid dental care altogether. The good news is we offer sedation dentistry, which allows us to keep your smile full of bright, healthy teeth while making you feel comfortable.
You’re Not Alone in Your Fears
Somewhere between 9% and 15% of adults in the United States feel anxious about dental procedures. Noisy instruments, highly sensitive roots and tissues — these are perfectly valid reasons for your anxiety. However, modern dental techniques have come a long way, and most of our procedures are designed to help you avoid pain. If you don’t treat an infected tooth with a root canal procedure, you could suffer excruciating pain as well as the loss of the tooth.
We Help You Relax
With sedation dentistry, we’re able to keep you calm and happy during your dental visit. We offer two different kinds of sedation: oral anti-anxiety medications, and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). If you have mild anxiety, we may simply have you take the edge off with a pill you take before your procedure. If your anxiety is mid-grade, laughing gas makes you feel relaxed and euphoric.
By providing you with sedation dentistry options, your visits won’t be a source of anxiety. You can feel confident, knowing that you’re preventing larger problems down the road through excellent preventive care. To learn more about our sedation dentistry services, please give us a call or request an appointment online.