The American Dental Association in 2007 adopted a policy statement asserting the “right of appropriately trained dentists” to use sedation and general anesthesia to treat patients. The association has ...

New guidance on dental sedation from the Faculty of Dental Surgery, RCS Eng and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/fds). Defines 'standard ...

Conscious sedation is defined as ‘a technique in which the use of a drug or drugs produces a state of depression of the central nervous system enabling treatment to be carried out, but during which ...

Adverse events (AEs), including airway and breathing complications, occur in 1 in 12 instances of deep sedation (DS) performed in children at outpatient dental settings. The study was published on ...

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...