Dental treatment in anaesthesia

Anaesthesia/sedation is performed by an anaesthesiologist specialist doctor and a specialist assistant and the surveillance period following the treatment is also supervised by the anaesthesiologist.

As all other medical treatments, this procedure also has its dangers but the occurrence of side effects and complications can be minimised with the appropriate professional and technical arrangements and the necessary preparation.

Basically, three methods can be chosen from:

Conscious sedation

During the dental treatment so-called „laughing gas”, the mixture of dinitrogen-monoxide and oxygen, is dosed through a nose mask. As a result, tenseness and anxiety decreases and a relaxed and relieved state of mind is created while you are awake and you can communicate with your dentist and your environment. Side effects are rare, apart from the slight numbness of the limbs. In addition to this sedation, it is also necessary to apply anaesthetic injection as the alleviative effect of the gas is not enough for complete painlessness. We recommend this method in itself for shorter dental treatments. It is not necessary to go through a lengthy period of fasting beforehand but we do request you not to eat or drink 2 hours before the procedure. After the treatment it is necessary to inhale pure oxygen for 2-3 minutes and half or an hour later you can leave unattended after a check-up. The method can be applied on anybody, with the exception of pregnant women.

Sedation

We recommend it for longer dental treatments. Sedation needs preparation. In case of healthy patients under 35 years of age, it is not necessary to perform previous instrumental examination. Before sedation an anaesthesiologist examines you and decides if your state is suitable for the procedure.

You get into a state similar to natural sleeping and we achieve painlessness in a combined way, by dosing local anaesthetic and intravenous analgesics.

The dosage of drugs is stopped at the end of the treatment and you wake up within 5-10 minutes. After sedation we keep you under monitoring for a couple of hours in a room specially equipped for this purpose and if no complications have occurred, you may leave for your home, attended by your companion.

Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia is recommended for dental surgery and lengthy dental treatments. Anaesthesia needs the same preparations as sedation. As this is a more serious and complicated procedure than the two above, it can only be applied on patients who do not suffer from any serious organic illness or undergo continuous medical treatment.

During anaesthesia, modern instruments help us continuously observe and keep in balance the basic physiological processes. At the end of the operation we stop dosing the drugs and also apply antagonist preparations if necessary. After the patient becomes conscious, they are referred to a so-called awakening room, where they remain under the supervision of our anaesthesiologist until all physiological processes return to normal and stable.