When it is said to take care of your teeth, certainly it is specifically about your oral health. There is one term that many people must have not heard about in common and that is ‘oral sedation’.

What is oral sedation and why it is used in dentistry? It is basically a medical procedure that involves the administration of oral sedative drugs. It is usually done in order to proceed with the dental procedure and reduce patient’s fear and anxiety during the dental procedure.

In simple terms, it (oral sedation) is one of the methods available that is used for conscious sedation dentistry, inhalation sedation and conscious intravenous sedation. There are different types of medicines that can be used in this particular procedure and to name a few of them are diazepam, Zaloplon and Hydroxyzine and many more.

Most importantly, the procedure of oral sedation is used to provide pain-free experience to the dental patients. Apart from this, it is even used for the patient who go through long and time consuming dental procedures.

In case, any patient goes for the treatment of smile makeover that certainly requires longer period of time, then this procedure of oral sedation is followed so that the dentist can continue with the work for long hours and cutting down on the number of visits of the patient.

Usually, for using this specific oral sedation procedure, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is used which makes the patient light headed and in some cases the patients not even remember anything related to the dental procedure done on them. But the best thing is that it does not have any side effect and the patients can even drive way back home immediately after the dental session is complete.

But, one fact is that you cannot expect every dentist to perform oral sedation process because it requires expertise. So, it is better to opt for highly qualified and experienced dentist who specifically have vast experience in giving patients this particular process so that you can stay relaxed while taking the procedure. Moreover, with the help of this procedure you can even stay away from the fear of pain and anxiety of the painful dental procedures.