We often ask new patients at our practice about their last experiences. For most patients, local anesthetic or ‘freezing’ as its known is sufficient for most procedures at the dentist. For some patients, whether due to past negative experiences or dental fear, a deeper form of sedation may be required.
At our office we offer options such as laughing gas (nitrous oxide) all the way to deep sedation such as sleep dentistry so you don’t have to hear or feel any of the dental noises around you!
The majority of our patients choose an in between option for procedures such as dental implants and bone grafting. This is typically done with an oral sedative(pill) that is taken an hour before their visit and sometimes this is combined with the laughing gas. This places patients in a semi sleep and they will need someone to drive them home after.
Sleep dentistry is very safe and effective and is administered at our Bowmanville dental office by Dr. Jonathan J. Lok is who is a board certified dental anesthesiologist trained to provide sedation and general anaesthesia for dental procedures. This allows you to sleep through the entire procedure and wake up not remembering a thing ! Each patient is uniquely evaluated to make sure they are healthy enough for this procedure before.