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>Not sure why you'd need to go under or have nitrous. Many people (myself included) have anxiety around dental work. Just like going into an MRI might be fine

>Not sure why you'd need to go under or have nitrous. Many people (myself included) have anxiety around dental work. Just like going into an MRI might be fine for you but people with even a mild claustrophobia may find it unbearable. The other thing is not everyone's procedure is as simple as yours. Your tooth was exposed, thus easy to extract. Your teeth were not fully impacted, for example. This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLuyFaOQoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLuyFaOQoo - shows the procedure for removing impacted wisdom teeth.

noir_lord 11y ago
Granted the edge cases require it but anaesthesia is dangerous. Wouldn't call my second one simple, dentist asked if she could preserve it and send it to local uni as her words "that's the largest root structure I've ever seen", at one point I didn't think she could get enough force on it, had to get a different tool. Lovely woman and amazing dentist.
- nommm-nommm 11y ago
  Of course sedation is dangerous. Sedation and nitrous both have dangers but so does avoiding dental work because of patient anxiety. So does a patient moving during the procedure due to anxiety or being uncooperate. Its all a cost benefit analysis, like everything in medicine, and each patient and case is different. Nitrous is fairly safe and very effective and should probably be suggested more as an alternative to sedation. You could open up my abdomen and take out my kidney while I was awake and it would not bother me as long as I didn't feel it. Go near my mouth or eyes though and I have unbearable anxiety. I'd let all my teeth rot out of my face before undergoing tooth extraction awake, its that bad. This is a fairly common fear. Even without anxiety my oral surgeon strongly recommended at least nitrous due to the procedure being performed. Your procedure was simple enough for a dentist to perform, and didn't require an oral surgeon, so pretty simple.

noir_lord 11y ago

Granted the edge cases require it but anaesthesia is dangerous. Wouldn't call my second one simple, dentist asked if she could preserve it and send it to local uni as her words "that's the largest root structure I've ever seen", at one point I didn't think she could get enough force on it, had to get a different tool. Lovely woman and amazing dentist.

nommm-nommm 11y ago
Of course sedation is dangerous. Sedation and nitrous both have dangers but so does avoiding dental work because of patient anxiety. So does a patient moving during the procedure due to anxiety or being uncooperate. Its all a cost benefit analysis, like everything in medicine, and each patient and case is different. Nitrous is fairly safe and very effective and should probably be suggested more as an alternative to sedation. You could open up my abdomen and take out my kidney while I was awake and it would not bother me as long as I didn't feel it. Go near my mouth or eyes though and I have unbearable anxiety. I'd let all my teeth rot out of my face before undergoing tooth extraction awake, its that bad. This is a fairly common fear. Even without anxiety my oral surgeon strongly recommended at least nitrous due to the procedure being performed. Your procedure was simple enough for a dentist to perform, and didn't require an oral surgeon, so pretty simple.