IV Sedation

Sedation Dentistry

Our office offers our patients the option of Intravenous Sedation or Dental Intravenous Anesthesia — or to some it is referred to as “Twilight Sedation” — for their dental treatment.

Intravenous Sedation or “twilight sleep” helps you to be comfortable and calm when undergoing dental procedures. Your treatment can be completed under intravenous sedation. Intravenous sedation or “IV sedation” (twilight sedation) is designed to better enable you to undergo your dental procedures while you are very relaxed; it will enable you to tolerate, as well as not remember those procedures that may be very uncomfortable for you.

For more information about IV Sedation, please call use our Contact Us form or call our office: San Luis Obispo Office Phone Number 805-541-5611.

IV sedation will essentially help alleviate the anxiety associated with your treatment. You may not always be asleep but you will be comfortable, calm and relaxed, drifting in and out of sleep – a “twilight sleep”.

If you choose the option of intravenous sedation your IV sedation/anesthesia is administered and monitored by the doctor therefore eliminating the costly expense of having your treatment carried out in an operating room or same day surgical facility.

How is the IV Sedation Administered?

A thin needle will be introduced into a vein in your arm or hand. The needle will be attached to an intravenous tube through which medication will be given to help you relax and feel comfortable. At times a patient’s vein may not be maintainable; in these situations the medications will be administered and the needle retrieved — both scenarios will achieve the same desired level of conscious sedation. Once again some patients may be asleep while others will slip in and out of sleep. Some patients with medical conditions and/or on specific drug regimens may only be lightly sedated and may not sleep at all.

Benefits of Twighlight Sedation

The goal of IV sedation is to use as little medication as possible to get the treatment completed. It is very safe, much safer than oral sedation. With IV sedation a constant “drip” is maintained via the intravenous tube. At any time an antidote can be administered to reverse the effects of the medications if necessary.

Additional Sedation Options

Along with IV sedation there are also other different “levels” of sedation available to you in our office. There is nitrous oxide analgesia. Contact our office for more information: San Luis Obispo Office Phone Number 805-541-5611.