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There are people who suffer from dentophobia, or fear for dental objects and activities, who cannot control their emotions when around the dentist in Gresham. Therefore, dentists put these patients into “twilight sleep” while in dental treatment.

This kind of method is called Intravenous Sedation Dentistry or IV sedation. This is done by inserting an anti-anxiety drug in the blood stream during dental activity. There are people who do not want to go to the dental clinic because of this, but it is usually better when the patient do not know that they will be sedated in the process.

The process will keep the patient conscious but will feel too tired and sleepy to move his or her body. However, it is most often that the patient will never know what he or she went through because the IV sedation made him or her experience a very relaxing state. The drug used also enables short memory loss that will put the patient to remember less about the dental treatment. Therefore, it will look like the patient slept the whole time during the dental treatment.

This process should be done by well-experienced and licensed Gresham dentists because they are the ones who know exactly how much dosage they have to give to a particular patient.