Recent Questions About Dentists Prompted This Thought, Do You Still Use 'gas' To Anaesthetise...

[sandyRoe]

...nervous adult patients?
I believe they need someone to administer it, which would add to the cost, and there are other reasons why it shouldn't be used. But is it available in some cases?

[sandyRoe]

* do they^, rather that 'do you'

[Sqad]

Yes they do......nitrous oxide and oxygen.....laughing gas.
It has to be administered by a qualified anaesthetist and this provides a bit of spare cash" for the boys.

[anneasquith]

i thought not, in modern dentistry I/V sedation is used, ( could be wrong though )

[Sqad]

anne

\\\\\Do You Still Use 'gas' To Anaesthetise...\\\\

That was the question.

Sedation is mainly used, but inhalation anaesthesia is still used, but uncommonly.

[anneasquith]

is it ? I'm surprised .

[Daffy6543]

Ordinary dental surgeries are not allowed to use a general anaesthetic at all, they require you to go to a specialist surgery or even hospital for those nowadays.

[Old_Geezer]

I've had gas anesthesia in the distant past. Not the most pleasant experience but luckily it doesn't take too long before you're out.

[anneasquith]

thanks daffy,,,,,,,,,,,,,i was sure ( gas ) was not available at dentists now.

[Obiter]

Re Sqad

My GP (I am going back to when I was a child) had an interest in anaesthesia and did not hold surgeries on a Friday morning because that was when he was at the dentist's administering gas. At least he worked for his money; spare cash for the boys in countersigning cremation certificates was known as "ash cash".

[Sqad]

Obiter....yes, that was very popular, but now IV sedation is mainly used but for resistant children and certainly adults, inhalation anesthesia is still used.

Ash Cash.....LOL.....was a very popular collection it funded many hospital mess parties with alcohol.

[anneasquith]

sqad, wen you say '' still used '' do you mean in a dentist surgery ?

[Sqad]

No, not necessarily.......in dental surgery.

Dental surgery being carried out in specific dental surgeries or in a hospital situation.

[jennyjoan]

I'd take gas, iv sedation, iv up your nose, iv down your throat. And err Rat Poison if necessary to face the butcher.

[stuey]

My experience here in Ontario is that the nitrous-oxide mixture is used in an "ordinary" dental office merely to relax the patient...sort of a gaseous Valium. Any procedure in which the patient is required to be "put under" has to be done in a dental-surgeon's office or, in some circumstances, a hospital

[gordiescotland1]

I take a massive dose of lorazepam. I take 4 (1mg) the night before, 2 (1mg) in the morning and 4 (1mg) 1 hour before the appointment I aint got a clue whats happening and im out of it for another 8 hours when I get home I get someone going with me but I cant do it without it .

[jennyjoan]

Well Sandy you know that the dentist you have been to and I will go eventually - the actual dentist is experienced enough to give you the sedation via your arm. That has been offered to me.

[jennyjoan]

Geordie when you say 4(1mg) etc etc - have you omitted the 0 eg
4(10mg) etc etc - that would do me. LOL

[sandyRoe]

You should go, jennyjoan, and get it over with.

[Prudie]

I had gas once for pre-brace extractions when I was 11. I can still remember it vividly, really horrific. I'm sure if used today it would be done in far less scary manner.

[aelmpvw]

my dentist doesn't need to knock me out to rob me ...