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Sedation Dentistry

Mission Statement
Our Mission is to Successfully Treat High-Fear Patients Using Sedation
If you have a lot of fear about receiving dental treatment, you are not alone. It is a well-known fact that 50% of our population doesn't go to a dentist regularly. More...

Wake Up to a Beautiful Smile
If you are experiencing a lot of fear and anxiety about your dental treatment, we invite you to read some testimonials from a few of our patients who have successfully completed their treatment and have overcome what they felt to be insurmountable fear.

Patient Testimonials
We are continually adding new patient testimonials regarding our sedation techniques. Please feel free to read them on our Sedation Testimonials page.

The Sedation Standard
Physicians have already set the standard of treating patients using sedation in the U.S. over the past 30 years. It is nothing new to patients for operations on knees, feet, wrists, ears, noses, everything. As one lady told me the other day, "I had to go in for an MRI (a type of X-ray) and I was very nervous so my doctor gave me some sedation." More

Using Sedation in Dentistry

Decision
The only thing standing between you and getting the dental care you want is a couple of tablets of medication. It couldn't be simpler.

Type of Sedation
The sedation we utilize is oral sedation (pills.) We use pills for several reasons:
1. Many of our patients are needle phobic so they would not like to be told that we must use a needle to sedate them.
2. With oral sedation, we can work on patients for a longer period of time.
3. Oral sedation is very safe.
4. The pills stay in a patient's system for several hours after the appointment, so we get few complaints of pain after procedures are completed.

Safety
The reason that we use this oral sedation technique is because of its safety. More...

How You Will Feel
As you can read in our patient's letters of testimony, their perception of this conscious sedation technique is they feel they have slept through the appointment. More...

Sedation Training
The dentist at Coastal Dentistry was trained in sedation dentistry techniques by Dr. Pezdek in Raleigh. Our dentist keeps current with continuing education on conscious sedation. He received additional training with Dr. Michael Silverman DDS in Philadelphia, P.A. in July 2001, and is a member of DOCS (Doctors Organization for Conscious Sedation). He has obtained in 2007 a Fellowship status in the DOCS organization by his committment to CE over the last 5 years.
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Your First Visit

1-2 Appointments or 8-10?
General dentistry is very time consuming. Patients with complex dental problems are often depressed when told it will take 8-10 appointments over a period of several months to fix their teeth.

This type of plan most often ends in failure for fearful patients who have been hurt by dentists in the past. They will go for one or two appointments to get out of pain and abandon the remaining treatment until they are in pain again. More...

First Appointment Procedure
When you come into our office for the first time, usually already having completed the medical history and patient information, you will be greeted by our friendly staff, and Dr. Smith will interview you privately.

The doctor will talk with you about the problems you have had in the past and what your specific fears are. After the doctor has reviewed your medical history with you and addressed any concerns you wish to discuss, he will do a visual exam of your teeth. More...