Sedation dentistry in Glasgow
We appreciate that a visit to the dentist can be stressful for some people. Our relaxation programme is specially designed to make nervous people relaxed. We provide state of the art dentistry with minimal invasive techniques to make your visit as easy and comfortable as possible.
You will be offered DVD entertainment during treatment. We use a computerised delivery system for injections called the WAND, which delivers comfortable local anaesthetic. We also use a new needle-free type of anaesthetic which allows numbing of gum tissue for comfort during deep cleanings, without the need for the old-fashioned "stick" of the dental needle. Where this is not suitable for the treatment being carried out, we use a special medical grade anesthetic paste. It allows for completely painless injections. Patients can't believe that they just had an injection.
If you have avoided the dentist for years due to bad experiences in the past, you can now comfortably snooze through even the most complex dental care, thanks to sedation dentistry. At our Glasgow sedation clinic we have a high success rate in relieving the anxieties of our patients. Sedation puts patients into a relaxed and comfortable dream like state.
We offer both inhalation and intravenous sedation.
Inhalation sedation uses nitrous oxide (gas and air). The technique is non-invasive (no needles) for the administration of the sedation. The gas and air are simply breathed through a small nasal mask and take effect very quickly, with patients feeling relaxed but not asleep. The effects also wear off quickly. After a short period of breathing oxygen at the end of treatment and a short recovery period patients are able to continue their normal day.
Some analgesia (pain relief) is produced although in most cases local anaesthetic is still needed.
This technique will remove a severe gag reflex, which for some patients has prevented dental treatment in the past.
Intravenous (IV) sedation is where drugs are injected. This results in a “deeper” feeling of relaxation although again the patient will not actually be asleep. One of the effects of IV sedation is that patients do not remember what has happened while they are sedated, so it is particularly useful for more invasive treatments.
Patients opting for IV sedation have to bring an escort to accompany them home and will have to take things easy for the rest of the day, as the effects of the sedation do take longer to wear off.
“I was very nervous about dental treatment prior to sedation dentistry with Dr Cashel. I had a situation were I was going to Paris with school as a 16 year old and was getting treatment before I went and the dentist drill slipped and caught my cheek and it put me off dentistry for 12 years. I then went to the dental hospital and that was another not great experience.
Now I get sedation dentistry with Dr Cashel I feel much happier. It is very, very easy and less stressful than anything I have had in the past. I had the gas and the magic wand and I felt great after it and had no ill effects what so ever. I would recommend it to anyone. I remember joking with Dr Cashel at the end of treatment and asking if he had time to take any more teeth out.
As far as I am concerned he is second to none in the way he treats people. For the very nervous patient, and I think there is no one more nervous than me, I would recommend Dr Cashel and sedation.
I have been kept informed all the way along the way about the options for sedation which is excellent.
When I am having fillings I have all the thoughts about all the previous stuff in my mind, and before treatment with all the will in the world you think this is ridiculous but then you are lying there it just creeps up. The sedation side of things is great. It’s strange but me and extractions are strange bed fellows and the sedation options you give are excellent. Sedation dentistry has changed the way I view dentistry. For all the treatment I have had with sedation, if I wouldn’t have had it I would have flaked out by now.”
John Glen