Oral Sedation | Queens, Brooklyn, New York

What is oral sedation?

Medications for oral sedation reduce activity in the part of the brain controlling anxiety and fear. Your child is left feeling relaxed and calm during their dental procedure. If they fall asleep, we can easily awaken them. While your child may feel sleepy when using oral sedation, they will remain responsive and able to breathe independently. Though they might not remember doing so, they'll be able to follow our commands during the procedure.

Sedation by mouth: the process

Your child will take the oral sedative about an hour before the appointment. Teens driving themselves will need someone else to take them because the pill may kick in before the appointed time. They'll also need that other person to bring them home.

Aren't you recovering just fine with oral sedation?

Most patients are likely to experience drowsiness following oral sedation. It means you should plan to leave your child at home for the remainder of the day to rest and relax. Oral sedation may also prevent a few of them from remembering any part of the dental procedure.

What are the benefits?

More benefits of oral sedation for our patients:

• No needles

For a child who is afraid of needles, he will find oral sedation the perfect substitute rather than IV sedation. Just taking the pill is enough to make him or her relaxed and comfy during a procedure.

Oral sedation is safe

The medications used for oral sedation are safe and FDA approved for sedation in dentistry. The chances of finding severe side effects are very less, if at all.

Faster procedure

Since an oral sedated child feels more comfortable and relaxed and better responds to our commands during the procedure, this would make the procedure possible to be completed as quick as possible and, thus, minimize recovery time and discomfort after the procedure.