Dental treatment under narcosis
A visit to the dentist is an unpleasant procedure that many people remember from their childhood. The sound of the drill, the painful, aching sensation, the uncomfortable chairs, the often inattentive, rude dentists. But all that is a thing of the past. Modern dentistry can be comfortable: the chairs are completely different, the latest equipment is used and, most importantly, there is analgesia.
Fear of dental treatment - how to overcome it
Although dental pain can be very severe and sometimes unbearable, many people put off going to the dentist until the last moment and settle for painkillers. This should not be the case. The inflammation in the affected tooth will get worse and you will eventually need to see a dentist. The treatment will then take much longer and be much more expensive.
Dental treatment under narcosis is an excellent solution in modern dentistry. The patient feels no pain and reacts naturally to the drill and the various manipulation techniques used by the dentist.
Narcosis is a local or general anaesthetic that can block pain. Today, narcosis is not a luxury, but a necessity for comfortable treatment. The drugs are not harmful to your health and the amount is controlled by an experienced anaesthetist. In some cases, it is recommended that patients have dental treatment under general narcosis. These may be serious, advanced cases that cannot be treated with a local anaesthetic.
With modern equipment, the filling or extraction of a tooth is done quickly.
General narcosis - nuances, advantages and disadvantages
If there are serious complications or a person is afraid of dental treatment even under local analgesia, extraction and treatment of teeth under general narcosis is an alternative. The medicated sleep allows the patient to relax completely and not react to the frightening sounds of the drill. Before going under general anaesthetic, the patient undergoes a medical examination, allergy test and interview with the anaesthetist. The specialist carefully selects the drugs and dosage required.
A general narcosis can be used to remove teeth, fill cavities or place implants.
Reasons for prescription of general analgesia.
- If the patient has an overwhelming emotional fear of the dentists.
- If a large number of teeth need to be treated at once (or if long-term prostheses are planned). Sitting with your mouth open for more than two hours is difficult. The dentists uses special braces during general narcosis.
- The patient is allergic to local anaesthetic.
- When a "wisdom tooth" is extracted. This is a complicated procedure and usually takes a long time.
The preparations are tailored to each patient.
The advantages are that the patient does not see the treatment and does not hear any unpleasant noises. It is easier and quieter for the doctors to work. The disadvantage is that sometimes the patient's general condition worsens when he or she comes out of the narcosis.
The price of dental treatment under general narcosis is set by each clinic based on the cost of preparations and materials for the procedure.
The procedure for administering narcosis
The anaesthetist will insert a special anaesthetic catheter and after about eight minutes you will fall into a deep sleep. You will not feel any pain during the analgesia. The dose will be adjusted according to the complexity and duration of the operation. The patient wakes up after the procedure is over.
An anaesthetist is always present during the operation and can increase the dosage of the drug if necessary.
Dental treatment under general narcosis, the price of which depends on the anaesthetics, can only be carried out if the patient has no contraindications. If an intolerance to medicinal sleep medication is established, a local anaesthesia will be given.
At the first consultation, the doctor will tell you in detail about which teeth need to be treated first, about the condition of your gums and about which design you need to choose in order to fill in the missing teeth.
About what actions and manipulations need to be carried out. Learn how to take good care of your mouth so you don't have to go to the dentist as often as possible.
After discussing the above aspects, your dentist will draw up a treatment plan, guide you by the stages, timing, cost of the upcoming treatment, make, if necessary, computer diagnostics of the teeth and make an appointment for you at a convenient time for you to start treatment.
It is worth restoring a lost tooth as early as possible, because delaying such a process can lead to unpleasant health consequences and undesirable costs in the future.
Patients who seek help for tooth loss too late unwittingly start the process of destruction of other adjacent teeth, because the load during chewing is not evenly distributed.
Dental implantation is one of the most reliable and effective procedures that allows you to restore one or more teeth.
The method of dental implantation is now very popular, because it helps patients to restore lost teeth both in the upper and lower jaws without grinding pine teeth, which is always carried out during prosthetics (crowns).
With implantation, the number of lost teeth does not matter. Dental implantation is considered to be the only right way out of care for everyone, because the healing rate of implants today is over 99%!
