Sedation Options in Cincinnati, OH

One of the acknowledged challenges in being a dentist is having patients that are a little anxious about coming in having work done or finding out they need some things done because they're not as healthy as they'd really like to be, but there's this hesitancy or just uncomfortableness about coming in. Some of the things that we offer to these patient is a anywhere from (inaudible) sedation which called laughing gas, we do recognize it as that We do offer oral sedation, valium helps younger people where people will still definitely be conscious in with us but it's just a little bit of taking the edge off to help them feel more comfortable. So, from a pharmacological standpoint does it be the basic things that we would offer patients to make them more comfortable in the office.

Believe it or not, patients can be anxious coming to see the dentist. We know this, so we offer a lot of what I call creature comforts. We have radio headsets so they can listen to the cable TV, we can hook them up to customizable radio stations so they can listen to music, and we can hook them up with DVD glasses to watch a movie while we're working on them. So those are sort of the ‘comfort blankets,’ that kind of thing, to make them comfortable.

If patients are interested in more comfort than that, we do offer oral sedation prior to their visit or during their visit that can help them just relax a bit more, make the time kind of pass. That's also very helpful for patients, and a lot of our patients are eager to utilize that.

So when we have our patients, you always want to be well taken care of, very comfortable. This relates to our pediatric patients, making them comfortable in our office, and our adult patients as well.

What we've found over the years is very often, the patients at first come to us with a high degree of anxiety. Once we've worked with them for a while, demonstrated we can take care of them comfortably, they develop confidence in the care they're being given. Quite often I'll see a lot of those patients over the years require less and less creature comforts or sedation, if you will, to comfortably get their care done. So honestly, we've proven for a lot of our patients that over time they relax when they come into our office because their expectations have changed, their expectations are being well taken care of and comfortably taken care of, and they kind of cut back on some of those sedation needs.