Sedation Dental Care - What's It All About?

Patients unfamiliar with sedation dentistry can find it confusing and wonder about safety. They often don't understand how or if it is used in conjunction with "traditional" anesthetic approaches used in dentistry. One of the most significant changes in the field of dentistry is the availability of sedation dental care - providing the same levels of comfort that are routinely provided by doctors of general medicine and related fields of specialty. The ADA and regulatory state dental boards across the U.S. are facilitating this change in dentistry and helping to ensure that dentists who provide sedation dentistry do it safely. The questions and answers below are intended to help you understand both some of the history as well as a broader explanation of how dentistry is safely being made more comfortable than ever for patients.