PHOBIC PATIENTS - introduction

At Leeds Advance Dental Care, we have for many years treated a great many patients who are extremely nervous of dental treatment. Patients who are almost in tears just sitting in the dental chair. Phobic dental patients visit us from all over England for a wide range of treatments.

AFRAID OF THE DENTIST ?

We have many years experience in treating people, who are terrified. No matter how you feel, rest assured we have seen somebody more nervous. The fact that you are even reading this, puts you ahead of a high percentage of the population.

TESTAMENTS
We have over the years received hundreds of thank you letters from very frightened people. A selection of these are framed on the waiting room wall. Come in and read them. Dental patients from London, Manchester, Bradford, Newcastle, Birmingham, North England and South England have been treated by a dentist at Advance Dental Care, in Leeds, for either cosmetic dentistry or dental treatment under sedation.

ORAL SEDATION
To enable you to visit the surgery we can provide you with a tablet to take, to help relax you. For very nervous patients, we ask you to come an hour before your appointment to take a sedative tablet, before having your full sedation.

DENTAL SEDATION
At Advance Dental Care, we have always given intravenous sedation with a consultant anaesthetist providing the sedation. We feel that no matter what courses a dentist goes on, a short diploma, does not compare with a doctor's degree and lifetime of experience in providing anaesthesia and sedation. The art of finding a vein to provide the sedation, can in itself be a challenge to a not so experienced dental surgeon.

FEAR OF NEEDLES
For people with a fear of needles, a surface anaesthetic can be provided to the back of the hand. You will be required to come half an hour before your appointment for this to be applied, as it takes time to work.

For the extreme needle phobic, inhalational sedation can be provided and then when in a dream-like state, a needle can be applied to the back of the hand, and drugs given intravenously.

MONITORING
All patients continually have their blood pressure, pulse, oxygen levels in the blood and heart monitored. This is not always routinely done at other sedation clinics, but this is a standard, which is considered a must at our clinic.

DRUGS USED IN SEDATION
At our clinic we use Midazolam, Fentanyl and in some instances Propofol. These are drugs which are very safe and provide excellent dream-like states.