Sedation Dentistry
For patients up to age 21
Our office offers OBA sedation for high anxiety patients up to age 21. This is what sets our office apart from other dental practices; it is our niche.
Sedation is performed in our Louisburg, Ks office every other month on Fridays.
Office-based anesthesia (OBA) is a form of ambulatory anesthesia provided in the comfort and convenience of our dental office. Smaller, mobile monitoring devices and refined anesthetic techniques have made it possible to deliver anesthesia safely for appropriately chosen patients and procedures in the office.
If you choose the option of sedation your anesthesia is administered and monitored by a Board Certified Anesthesiologist. This eliminates the costly expense of having your treatment carried out in an operating room or same-day surgical facility.
Anesthesiologists are highly skilled medical doctors (M.D. or D.O.) who specialize in the field of anesthesiology. They have significantly longer and more extensive training than other classifications of anesthesia practitioners and are the most qualified to make anesthesia related perioperative medical decisions. Anesthesiologists in the United States complete four years of undergraduate college degree, four years of medical school, and four years of anesthesia residency.
Although some patients may have mild side effects such as nausea or a sore throat, general anesthesia is exceptionally safe, even for children and adults with complex medical conditions. The risk of complications correlates more closely to the specific type of procedure a patient is undergoing and his or her underlying health problems than to the anesthetic itself. Serious risks of anesthesia are indeed very low, with risk of mortality estimated to be 1:200,00-400,000 for healthy patients undergoing elective procedures. The most significant risk of the surgical day is potentially the car trip to and from the procedure.
The team consists of highly trained medical professionals. The anesthesia will be administered by a board-certified physician anesthesiologist, all of whom have a vast experience with pediatric anesthesia. Several maintain subspecialty certification in Pediatric Anesthesia. The dental care is administered by one of our qualified dentists that hold Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certificates.
Though we very much respect your desire to be with your child during the actual procedure, we will ask instead that you relax in the waiting area. The primary reason is our overwhelming concern for safety and high-quality care – best guaranteed when we are free to concentrate totally on monitoring our patients with our undivided attention.
Who will be physically present with my child when they are anesthetized?
Our physician anesthesiologist will exclusively care for your child during the course of the procedure and general anesthetic, until care is transferred for the recovery period to the subspecialty RN. The treating dentist and a dental assistant will be with the patient the entire procedure as well.
Is Sedation Dentistry good for all patients?
OBA is not suitable for everyone. Patients have to be medically and physically suitable for receiving anesthesia and surgery in the office. This will be determined through evaluation by your anesthesiologist in coordination with your /dentist and with your primary care physician if necessary.