Local Sedation Dental Care - Dentist Phobia
Santa Cruz Dental Care
Appointments: (831) 423-2400
Joseph Valle D.D.S.
Santa Cruz Dental Care
550 Water Street, Bldg. K-1
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Smiles Dental Care
Appointments: (630) 582-7600
William Wolski D.D.S.
Smiles Dental Care
96 N Bokelman Street
Roselle, IL 60172
Would you like your smile to be a bit brighter than it is right now? We can make it happen at Smiles Dental Care, with professional tooth whitening for brighter natural looking teeth. Dr. William Wolski's Roselle, IL area office can effectively lighten your stained or discolored tooth enamel. Whiter teeth not only look great, they improve your self-confidence.
Dr. William Wolski at his Roselle area dental implants practice offers extensive experience restoring your dental implant crown.
Our dedicated team uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques for stability and longevity. You'll enjoy the comfort and confidence of natural-looking teeth.
At Smiles Dental Care we aim to maximize your insurance benefits and make any remaining balance easily affordable. Roselle area dentist Dr. William Wolski and his knowledgeable staff can help answer any of your insurance questions.
We accept most insurance carriers. Please check with us prior to your appointment, but it's safe to say we likely accept the type of insurance you carry.
If you're looking for dentures that look great and last, look no further than Smiles Dental Care located in the Roselle, IL area. William Wolski, D.D.S. will assess your needs and fit you with durable, comfortable, natural-looking dentures - at a price you can afford.
A beautiful smile can brighten your life! If you are continuously hiding your chipped, stained, or cracked teeth from others, it's time for a change! William Wolski, D.D.S., a trusted Roselle area dentist, can fix chips, cracks, and stains to reveal a great new smile - and a new you. You'll look so good you'll wonder why you waited so long!
Soft Touch Dental Care
Appointments: (443) 276-0250
Teresa Adams D.M.D.
Soft Touch Dental Care
3201 Rogers Avenue, Suite 201
Ellicott City, MD 21043
For comfortable dental hygiene treatment in the Ellicott City, Maryland area, Dr. Teresa Adams is known for having a gentle touch. The friendly team at Soft Touch Dental Care provides teeth cleaning for a whiter smile.
Maintaining good dental hygiene is the foundation for healthy teeth and gums. We're committed to helping you have a lifetime of oral health.
With sedation dentistry, you'll feel like you slept through your appointment with Ellicott City area sedation dentist Dr. Teresa Adams. You'll likely remember absolutely nothing about your treatment, except waking up to your successful results. Dr. Adams commonly hears her patients say, "I remember taking a pill and the next thing I remember is waking up with my teeth fixed."
A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Ellicott City area dentist Dr. Teresa Adams understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Soft Touch Dental Care, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
Don't let untreated dental problems get you down. Rebuild your confidence with a beautiful new smile. From simple treatments that make a big difference, to more extensive work, unveiling the smile you were meant to have can have profound life-changing effects. Serving the Ellicott City, MD area and offering sedation dentistry, Dr. Adams can help you develop an affordable treatment plan you'll feel good about.
Most major credit cards are accepted at Soft Touch Dental Care in the Ellicott City area. Types of cards accepted include Visa, MasterCard, and Discover Card.
More Sedation Dentists in the Ellicott City, MD Area Near You
JEROME M CRAYLE D.D.S. PLLC
2148 NC HWY 54
GRAHAM, NC, 27253
(336) 578-3896
VELMA E COOPER DMD PA
6104 FAYETTEVILLE RD STE 106
DURHAM, NC, 27713
(919) 806-3007
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THOMAS B BRUFF JR D.D.S. PA
1307 MEDICAL CENTER DR
WILMINGTON, NC, 28401
(910) 762-3393
PORT CITY DENTAL CTR
4622 OLEANDER DR
WILMINGTON, NC, 28403
(910) 399-1127
Dental Anxiety Is No Laughing Matter
We'd like to offer one comforting and wonderful fact about today's dentistry: it's much less stressful than it used to be.
Technology, new procedures, and some very sophisticated approaches to dental anesthesia have all contributed to comfortable dentistry, from cleaning to cavity preparations to root canals.
But what if you didn't grow up with modern dentistry, and remember it differently?
If you have had difficult dental experiences, you may be among the 150 million Americans who white-knuckle their way through treatment, or avoid the dentist altogether. The fact is, about 80% of the fearful can overcome dental phobia, with a little help from conscious sedation.
Many dentists understand dental fear and where it comes from. And many are becoming trained in forming good working relationships with fearful patients. Your dentist should encourage you to voice your anxiety and discuss your problems with him or her, before he or she touches a tooth in your mouth.
They should listen to your needs, and agree on small things that help you maintain a sense of control - a hand signal works with some patients. But talking about fear with your dentist - being assertive and letting him or her know what bothers you - is the first step.
If you're moderately anxious, the dental team can provide distracting diversions to put those concerns to rest. If you're extremely anxious, they can virtually put anxiety to rest via oral sedation. This approach involves taking a mild sedative before you arrive for your appointment. You remain awake, but extremely relaxed - so relaxed that many patients have all their needed dental work completed in a single office visit. If dental anxiety has kept you from making an appointment you know is needed - a sedation dentist can help!
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Anxiety-Free Dentistry Can Help Control Dental Fears
Many patients face their dental appointment with a degree of anxiety. Research has shown that the largest cause of this fear is the fear of pain ... the fear that at some time during their dental care treatment they are going to be hurt.
Sedation dentists have information available about a variety of drugs known as local anesthetics, which are the safest and most effective drugs in all of medicine. Local anesthetics are a resource used in anxiety-free dentistry for the prevention and management of dental anxiety resulting from dental and surgical procedures, not to put the patient to sleep.
Local anesthetics, commonly called Novocain by patients (Novocain is no longer used, having been replaced by newer, safer, and more effective drugs), are drugs which, when injected near a nerve, prevent stimulation from reaching the brain where it would be interpreted by a person as pain. Sedation dentists interested in practicing anxiety-free dentistry know these also work very well as temporary relief of a tooth ache.
The injectable local anesthetics, used today by sedation dentists provide complete relief about 100% of the time. The duration of the numbness varies from drug to drug -- some providing short durations, while others remain effective for up to 12 hours. A doctor will select a drug for a patient that is appropriate for the type of dental care procedure they are having done.
In order to be effective during dental treatment, local anesthetics usually need to be injected. For many people, this is the most uncomfortable part of the entire dental appointment.
Local anesthetics can be administered quite comfortably. Sedation dentists and dental hygienists take pride in their ability to administer local anesthesia easily and comfortably.
The following are some of the procedures sedation dentists practicing anxiety-free dentistry might use to make this procedure more comfortable:
- Place the patient in a reclined position during the injection.
- Place a topical anesthetic (a gel or spray) on the patient's gums where the injection is to be given. This should remain in contact with tissues for at least one minute.
- Use of a distraction technique, such as pulling or shaking the lip as the needle is slowly inserted.
- Injecting the local anesthetic drug slowly. This is critical to a comfortable injection.
- Permitting the local anesthetic drug time to work. Most local anesthetics will become completely effective within approximately five minutes after their injection.
If an individual is fearful of receiving a local anesthetic injection, they should tell the assistant or the sedation dentist BEFORE the procedure starts. The use of conscious sedation such as laughing gas, as part of anxiety-free dentistry, can work wonders to make this procedure more comfortable for the patient.
By Stanley F. Malamed, DDS
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