Dentists and their assistants will soon be required to undergo extra training in order to sedate patients following the deaths of two Chicago-area patients in recent years. The Illinois Department of ...

The patient's knuckles whiten and his eyes roll as he clutches the arms of the chair. Suddenly he chomps on your fingers. As you start back in pain, he leaps to his feet, knocks down several thousand ...

Minimal sedation -- you are awake but relaxed. Moderate sedation (formerly called "conscious sedation") -- you may slur your words when speaking and not remember much of the procedure. Deep sedation - ...

There is no official reporting or tabulation of dental sedation morbidity and mortality. The dental profession sees the occasional "horror story" in sensational media reports and is left to wonder.

The three main populations sedation dentistry caters to are children, people with mental disabilities and people who are afraid to have dental work done. Amy Franklin, a Oraspa specialist at Advanced ...

If your child needs extensive dental work, their pediatric dentist may recommend that they undergo sedation. Sedation is a safe way for dentists to complete any required procedures effectively, but it ...

The General Dental Council recommends the use of conscious sedation in preference to general anaesthesia whenever possible. In a survey of Welsh primary dental care practitioners, over half had ...

Surge in oral sedatives on young patients often driven by lure of big profits. July 12, 2012 — -- American children are being put at risk by inadequately trained dentists who often seek to ...

A trip to your Balmain Dentist has ceased being a chilling affair with the current modern-day dental technology. Twilight sedation is one of the most successful innovations that allows patients to ...