Please talk to us about any concerns you have. We pride ourselves on being welcoming, caring, understanding, non-judgemental, professional, and extremely friendly.
However, for those patients who are phobic we suggest you consider attending Dental Hospital as specifically trained to help. For patients who are anxious or nervous we offer two types of sedation:
Oral Sedation – This medication comes as a tablet and is taken with water before the procedure. This is used in addition to local (needle in gum) anaesthetic.
Intravenous Sedation (IV) – This medication is taken via a needle in the arm or hand, again this is in an addition to local (needle in gum) anaesthetic.
Both these options allow the patient to be awake and able to communicate with the clinicians. The EvoSolutionTM is a precise and exacting process, where patient cooperation is essential for optimal precision implant placement, bite record taking and the prosthesis placement.
Both sedation options also create a amnesic effect where the patient may experience a partial or total loss of the procedure, even though they are awake and able to communicate.
We do not provide general anaesthetic for the EvoSolutionTM. General anaesthetic ceased to be administered in general practice back in 2001 following strict guidance from the Department of Health (2000 – A Conscious Decision). General anaesthetic can only be administered in a hospital setting.
Although we can reassure and talk you through every step of the process and have many years of experience in helping nervous patients through our procedure, EvoSolutionTM is not designed for people with severe dental phobias such as sever needle phobia (not needle anxiety), severe gag reflex (associated with taking moulds of the mouth). We understand that for certain patients a general anaesthetic is essential for them to ‘get through’ this procedure. There are clinics that perform procedures where general anaesthetic is used, but we do not.