 Nitrous oxide is simply a gas which you can breathe in. It's colorless, sweet smelling, and non-irritating and allows safer quicker and more comfortable dental care and allows our patience to breed more oxygen while enjoying a remarkable depth of relaxation. It virtually eliminates the fear, nervousness, and tension associated with dental procedures. You remain in complete control, you are conscious, and you can follow directions.
What are the advantages? Laughing gas, which is what nitrous oxide is sometimes referred to, works very rapidly. It reaches the brain within 20 seconds, and relaxation and painkilling properties develop after two or three minutes.
The depth of sedation can be altered from moment to moment allowing us to increase or decrease the depth of sedation. Other sedation techniques don't allow for this. For example, with I. V. sedation it is easy to deepen the level of sedation but difficult to lessen it whereas with gas the effects are almost instance. Other sedation techniques have a fixed duration of action because the effects of pills or intravenous drugs last for a specific span of time whereas gas can be given for the exact time span it's needed for. It can also be switched off when not needed and then switched on again though to avoid a roller coaster effect though you shouldn't do this to abruptly.
With nitrous oxide is easy to give incremental doses until the desired action is obtained. This is called titration so we have virtually absolute control over the action of the drug preventing the possibility of accidental overdoses. While giving incremental doses is possible with I. V. sedation, it's not possible with oral sedation. As a result, oral sedation can be bit of a hit and miss affair. For certain procedures, especially those involving soft tissues such as deep cleaning, inhalation sedation may be used instead of local anesthesia. Nitrous oxide acts as a painkiller, however, it's pain relieving effects very a lot from person to person. |
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