A Very very nervous patient

[Steph]

I am a very nervous patient and I have not been to see a dentist in 20 years. I have got a lot of problems with my teeth. How would you be able to help a person like me?

[admin]

Dear Steph

We know very well how you feel as there are many patients like yourself that have phobia of dentistry and have not seen a dentist for a long long time. These people tend to need a lot of dental treatment as they have not visited a dentist for many years.

We are very pleased to tell you that at Pearl Dental Clinic we regularly accept and treat patients like yourself. Besides the help and support that you receive from our professional team that in many cases is enough to put our patients at ease and overcome their fear of dentistry we can also offer you sedation to overcome your phobia if needs be.

There are many forms of sedations that can be available to you such as inhalation sedation (happy gas), oral sedation (valium tablets) and Intra Venous (IV) Sedation.

From our experience we have noticed the most effective form of sedation for a large majority of our patients is IV sedation.

There are a variety of IV Sedations available. Dentists tend to use mostly midazolam but sometimes Midazolam alone does not produce an effective sedation.

An alternative to midazolam would be combination of drugs producing a very deep effective sedation. However sedation by a combination of drugs can only be done by a qualified specialist anaesthetist.

We are very pleased to inform you that at Pearl Dental Clinic we have a specialist anaesthetist that carries out all of our IV sedations and hence we are able to almost guarantee that we can induce very effective sedation for our patients.

[Anna]

I love IV sedation at the dentist. Its like you dont remember anything about what happened. I used to be very scared of dentists but now with sedation I am much more relaxed and calm.