Fear of tackling dental care is a very common problem; although most of the population regularly goes to the dentist or your hygienist, the 5-10% has a fear so great, that you see only when the pain became unbearable. Although only a small fraction of patients is affected by this terrible form of extreme anxiety, about 70% of the population, according to an investigation, clearly afraid to set foot in a dental clinic.
But now it is possible to overcome the anxiety through the use of equipment specifically designed for dentists and dental hygienists to be able to create in the patient a conscious sedation using nitrous oxide. The sedative and analgesic effect of nitrous oxide was discovered in the nineteenth century. In the U.S. and in many other countries (England, Australia, and Scandinavia) over 50% of dentists and hygienists use it regularly. Through a small nasal mask is given a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide percentages customized to achieve full sedation.
The machines do not allow, however, the supply of pure protoxide but there is always and mixing with oxygen! Early start after a few breaths the effect: a feeling of lightness and relaxation, the patient reaches a condition of complete, while remaining conscious and master of its meaning. Fears and tensions are transformed into a comforting feeling of safety. The patient can relax completely, leaving space their pleasant thoughts, as time passes on the fly. After the session, the patient still is breathing for about five minutes of ‘pure oxygen. When the effect of the gas has disappeared completely, the patient leaves the study alone dental and physical and mental conditions perfectly normal. Nitrous oxide is an ‘aid for the treatment of children fearful because, thanks to strong action relaxing and anxiolytic gas, about eighty percent of children who refuse dental treatment can be treated.
The inhalation conscious sedation is a completely safe because it does not cause allergies, is not metabolized by the body but simply removed with breathing, is not irritating or even toxic. The method is not indicated in children less than three years in the handicapped who can not breathe voluntarily with the nose, in the first three months of pregnancy, the drug addicts and in patients treated antidepressants.