Why offer dental sedation / monitored anesthesia care / general anesthesia?
It is estimated that 10-15% of patients avoid seeing the dentist because of anxiety or fear. A lot of them are worried about pain or feeling embarrassed.
Increased dental intervention production is the most obvious benefit to the dental business when sedation dentistry is incorporated.
Dentists who employ sedation enjoy more new patients and increased case acceptance, as well as higher production value per patient.
Since much of the dentistry completed on new patients occurs within their first year as patients, the influx of sedation patients will naturally result in more production.
Keep patients in house! Patients who would be referred to specialists for sedation can now be seen by the general dentist trained in these services.
The dominant obstacle to completion of dental intervention is fear. Once patients are assured they'll be comfortable, any financial roadblocks are overshadowed. The patient's desire to have a healthy, attractive smile and be free from pain or embarrassment takes priority.
The average sedation patient has extensive dental needs, which translates to higher overall production value potential to the practice per patient.
The nature of the sedation process typically results in longer appointments, so the doctor's schedule contains more productive appointments when compared to non-sedation care.
People who have neglected necessary dental work due to fear surrounding dental visits may feel like they are alone, but dental anxiety is a very common problem.
Nearly half of Americans have neglected important dental care because they feel such intense stress when it comes time to schedule or show up for an appointment.
To ensure that all his patients receive care that will benefit their oral health without causing undue anxiety, members of Prime Anesthesia PLLC specialize in offering IV sedation or monitored anesthesia care.
Monitored anesthesia care allows patients to undergo dental treatments in a state of semi-consciousness, which eliminates fear and stress, making even complex dental treatments completely comfortable for the patient.
The benefits of IV sedation/monitored anesthesia care, have allowed countless dental patients and dentists working with Prime Anesthesia specialists to restore the health and beauty of their smile and oral health.
A painless, safe and stress-free experience fosters life long positive Dentist-Patient relationships.
While any type of sedation dentistry can ease anxieties and make dental care more comfortable, Monitored anesthesia care offers the safest deepest state of relaxation.
Monitored anesthesia care puts patients in a state of semi-consciousness, so they are essentially asleep throughout the treatment.
Patients do not wake until after treatment is complete and when they do become aware, they often have no memory of the dental procedure.
This makes IV sedation a great option for patients with moderate to severe dental anxiety.
Monitored anesthesia care works FAR FASTER vs oral or nitrous sedation. Oral sedation medications can take over an hour to take effect (and needs to be taken at home prior to treatment), monitored anesthesia care begins to work within seconds. Once the IV is in place and the anesthetic is administered, it reaches the brain almost immediately and instantly puts the patient into a deep state of relaxation.
Monitored anesthesia care offers us the ability to be in constant control of how much medication the patient receives while offering and producing a precise level of sedation.
We will administer the sedative in small doses until the desired state of relaxation is achieved.
Once the patient is fully relaxed, we titrate the anesthesia based on the patient’s response and condition of the operative site. We can tailor the anesthetic to each patient’s response to the given medication while monitoring their vital signs beat by beat and breath by breath.
This service will allow those anxious and avoiding dental work to seek it out with confidence while allowing you to help restore oral health balance and patient confidence to seek and obtain the life they desire.