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. We use pills for several reasons. Many of our patients are needle-phobic so they would not like to be told that we must use a needle to sedate them. With oral sedation we can work on patients for a longer period of time.
Oral sedation is very safe.
The pills stay in a patients system for several hours after the appointment, so we get few complaints of pain after procedures are completed. The structural formula is represented in the model on the right. Use your mouse to have some fun with the molecule in the box. Left click on the molecule and spin it around. Right click on the molecule and choose from the menu.