Sedation Dentistry

Oral Conscious Sedation provides a patient with a minimally depressed level of consciousness that allows for total relaxation (or sleep), but still retains the patient's ability to respond appropriately to physical stimulation and verbal command.

Unlike General Anesthesia where a patient is completely unconscious, asleep, and unable to respond, patients under conscious sedation are able to respond to commands and breath on their own.

You may benefit from conscious sedation if you have a lot of stress, fear or anxiety about going to the dentist. you need a lot of dental treatment, you should consider the use of conscious sedation, sometimes referred to as "Relaxation Dentistry."


Conscious Sedation is Safe, Inexpensive, and Effective.

Many people have a fear of needles, difficulty getting numb, or a bad gag reflex.  Conscious sedation can help with all of these issues.
When a patient is sedated and relaxed it is possible to complete a large amount of complex dental treatment during a single visit. Patients remain relaxed throughout, and often have little or no memory of their dental visit.

 Commonly Used Oral Medications

 The most common drug is Halicion (also know as triazolam); it is very closely related to Valium chemically. The difference is that with Halicion there is a much deeper relaxation and amnesia effect than there is with Valium.