Have you experienced sedation dentistry?

The gas makes me feel horrible. My dentist insists on using something, because I have a loose tendon in my jaw, and it makes it difficult for him to work on me. I prefer the oral anxiety medication if I’m going to take something. The gas makes me feel anxious and out of control.. and fidgety. That’s not to say it would have the same effect on you, that’s just how I feel about it.

I took some sort of tranquilizer before my root canal – two visits. It worked well.

No.

I drove my phobic sister to the dentist. She had taken one dose prior to leaving and didn’t feel anything when she arrived, so they gave her a second dose. Twenty minutes later she still didn’t feel anything, so they gave her another. She stressed out during the exam, went home, where I suggested that she get some food on her stomach to help mitigate any delayed effects. After I left, she fell asleep with her head in a bowl of ice cream.

At 1st glance I thought this said ” Have you ever experienced SEDUCTION dentistry. Haha

No. I am not dentist phobic, I did have some sedation of some sort when I had a crown done a couple years ago, but, otherwise just the usual novicaine of whatever “caine” they use.

My poor daughter though, she is really dental phobic and when she had her upper wisdom teeth out the dentist had to give her like 3 times the sedatives because she was so resistent she wouldn’t do under. haha

Oh my heavens. I have had every kind of dental procedure done and you will survive. Don’t even think about sedation. That is legal drug abuse as far as I’m concerned.

I have done both halcyon which is a light sedation and full sedation for oral surgery. I’ve also done valuim.
Valuim is the safest, but you remember everything.
Halcyon makes you pretty much forget until tomorrow, although it made my daughter combative, and she tried to walk outside in her underware that night.
The full sedation is the most dangerous. I have low blood preassure and always have a hard time waking up.

I hate the dentist!!! I also hate flying, so I keep Xanax handy for when I have to do either. When I take Xanax I don’t care where I am or what they are doing to me. I feel so amazingly calm and pleased with myself. I have to be careful, I could probably get addicted to that stuff!!!

I have no problem with taking some sort of anti anxiety medication on special occasions such as these. I would discuss your problem and phobia with your family doctor and see what he suggests. Then I would have a practice session with the drug at home before the dental appointment to see what sort of effect it has on my system. Sometimes drugs have opposite the intended affect on my body.

I haven’t had this for dentistry but I have had it for a gastroscopy (where they shoved a camera down my throat to look inside my stomach). It wasn’t an actual general anaesthetic but it may as well have been, I was completely out of it for the whole thing.

For anyone who comes back to this question I had my appointment. They gave me medication to take in the morning so by the time I got there I was already drowsy. When I got there they gave me more medicaton orally. After about ten mins when I was almost asleep they injected me win something. I was asleep for the entire procedure which was for five hours. I woke up and they walked me out the door. I don’t remember the conversations I had with my sis or picking up prescriptions but apparently that happened also. I slept for another 6 hours when I got home and slept about 7 hours that night. The next day I felt sore but extremely refreshed. All in all very much worth it to get all my dental work done in one sitting.

Thanks for the update, I’m glad it went so well for you.