Sleep Dentistry or Deep Sedation

Some children are unable to hold still for dental care even with conscious sedation.  For children with many cavities that will take a long time to fill or children too young to understand the need to sit still, we are able to have them go to sleep for their dental fillings.

Today I had a four year old boy from Molalla and a three year old girl from Gladstone needing deep sedation.  Deep sedation is not quite general anesthesia like for medical operations but keeps patients just barely asleep.  Read the rest...

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