Patients can be sedated for dental care. There are broken-down smiles getting worse all because fear of the dentist. But once they get comfortable with sedation dentistry they are on there way to a healthy smile.

Using Halcion is my favorite type of dental sedation. I have the patient arrive at the dental office one hour before his/her dental care appointment. We then administer one halcion pill and to ensure safety, we place the patient on a monitor called a pulse oximeter which measure heart rate, blood oxygen levels and blood pressure. Within a half hour the patient starts to understand why we call it sedation dentistry. They become very relaxed and some people even fall asleep during the dental care. The greatest benefit from this drug is most patients do not remember anything about the dental care or even the dental office itself.

For the dentophobic, sedation dentistry is the way to go. Check out www.sedationdocs.com.