The standard of treating patients using sedation has already been set in the U.S. over the past 30 years by physicians. It is nothing new to patients for operations on knees, feet, wrists, ears, noses, everything. Patients ask dentists for sedation and the dentists do everything they can to talk them out of it. Most dentists do not want to go through the additional training and accreditation process that is necessary to sedate patients. You wouldn't think of having an ear operation or a nose operation without sedation.
Dentists attempt to work outside of the already established standard of using sedation.
I have found that fearful patients mentally have no problem being sedated for dental treatment. Sedation for certain types of dental care has been used for over thirty years. If you asked a hundred patients who have had their wisdom teeth removed how they had it done, most would say they were put to sleep to have them removed. The patient is the one who needs to determine what is bad enough for them to warrant sedation, not the dentist. If you feel that sedation, which is the standard of care for the rest of the body, is necessary for your dental care, call us.