With inhalation sedation dentistry, your dentist will have you breathe in nitrous ox-ide(laughing gas) prior and during your dental procedure. Nitrous oxide can be safely used for short periods of time. Nitrous oxide works very rapidly. Relaxation and pain-killing effects develop within few minutes. If you have difficulty breathing through your nose, inhalation sedation dentistry might not be the right form of sleep sedation dentistry for you.

This is another way of sedation dentistry. With IV sedation dentistry, you receive the medication directly into your vein. The three main effects of medications are that they reduce anxiety, they make you sleepy, and they produce partial or total amnesia. In general, IV sedition dentistry medications are safe and effective in the short term. IV sedation dentistry is more rapid than with oral sedation. The maxi-mum level of sedation can be achieved with IV sedation.

This is one of the most common form of Sedation dentistry. With oral sedation, your dentist give you the sedative in the form of a pill or liquid. The effects of these medications act to primarily relieve anxiety. Its safe and effective with very little to no side effect.

For the very high anxiety patient or rare medical conditions, you will receive med-ications that will cause you to be close to completely unconscious and in a very deep sleep while the procedure is being performed.