Life can be hard when you are scared of the dentist.
You want to have great looking teeth and to have a healthy, functional set of chompers, but the idea of getting into that dental chair makes your heart skip a beat.
While once considered a technique that was useful to help nervous children during extensive extractions, the options for sedation while undertaking dental work are growing in popularity and accessibility.
Sedation dentistry in Edinburgh is a great option if you are trying to acclimatise yourself to the dental chair, without creating an overwhelming experience. It allows you to undertake your oral examination while allowing you to feel relaxed and calm.
Unsure if it will help you manage your phobia? Here are 5 ways sedation dentistry in Edinburgh can help you feel more at ease in the dental chair, while also improving your dental health.
Reducing fear
If you have had a bad experience with a dentist in the past, it can be hard to simply take a deep breath and sit in the chair.
Whether your phobia is severe or minor, sedative dental techniques can help you to relax; oral sedatives will allow you to remain partially conscious, as will intravenous sedatives. Perfect if your phobia is a bit more intense. Only slightly nervous? Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, will probably be more fitting to get you through your dental check-up.
Fewer appointments
Of course, all modern dentists want to help their patients achieve and maintain good oral health.
If you need more dental work done through illness or failure to attend appointments, then sedation is the best way to get all of the procedures completed in one sitting. This will also reduce any potential recovery time while getting your oral health back on track quickly.
Less dental work
When you have a history of dental issues, it is important to maintain good oral health in the long term.
When you undertake sedation based dentistry, you are not only getting all of your dental problems resolved in one sitting, there is also a lowered likelihood of dental work being required in the future. If you are fearful of the dentist, it is perhaps unwise to undertake procedures while awake, as this may reinforce your fear and stop you from having all of your dental work completed.
No memory
One of the best things about sedation in dentistry? Depending on the type of sedation you undertake, your memory of the procedure will be minimal.
As humans remember fear-based experiences more than positive ones, reducing any recall of your time in the dental chair will allow those negative memories to fade, to be replaced with feeling relaxed and calm.
Higher confidence
As mentioned earlier, everyone wants to have a good looking set of teeth that are also functional.
If you have been avoiding the dentist for some time, sedation will help you to get your oral functionality back, improving your appearance and confidence at the same time. Great stuff!
