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701 Sheppard Ave. East,
Suite 102, Willowdale,
Ontario, Canada. M2K 2Z3
Tel: (416) 222-2192
Fax: (416) 222-9047
E-Mail: dr.see@rogers.com |
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| How do you put me to sleep during dental treatment? |
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Our office utilize a range of sedation techniques from Inhalation, Oral to I.V. Sedation to help our patients relax during dental treatments. These techniques may be used alone or in combination. The choice of techniques depends upon factors including patient's age, their level of nervousness, their health status as well as the nature and duration of the procedures to be performed.
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| Is I.V. sedation safe? |
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Dr. Stanley Malamed, Professor of Anesthesia, USC School of Dentistry, a nationally known expert on dental sedation, call I.V. sedation one of the safest of all sedative techniques. "While any sedative technique carries a degree of risk, the drugs used and their slow delivery, accompanied by modern monitoring equipment, make I.V. sedation extremely safe. After personally supervising over 3000 sedations at the USC School of Dentistry." Malamed reported, "Complications arising during sedation were less than 0.3% and even those were minor."
In Ontario, special permits must be obtained from the Royal College of Dental Surgeon before General Anesthetics and I.V. sedation can be provided in a dental office. The granting of a permit by the Royal College is subjected to careful assessment of the doctors' training as well as an on site inspection of our office to ensure our set up and equipment as well as staff qualification meet or exceed the stringent criteria set forth by the Royal College.
Dr. Victor Un is a Medical Anesthesiologist with 18 years of experience in the field of anesthesiology and is currently on staff at the North York General Hospital. Dr. Ricky See has been in general dental practice for 23 years and has received post-graduate continue education training in various disciplines including the safe administration of I.V. sedation. A registered nurse is always on site for patient monitoring when general anesthesia is given and all of our staffs are either Basic Life Support or Advanced Cardiac Life Support certified. Our training together with the modern monitoring and resuscitation equipments assure that I.V. sedation performed in our office is extremely safe.
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| How will I feel afterwards? |
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You can usually leave the office with a responsible adult around 15-30 minutes after the procedure is completed. It is common to feel a bit sleepy afterwards but everything should be back to normal within 12-24 hours. Complications of any sort are unusual.
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| Will my insurance cover sedation services? |
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Sedation is a covered benefit for a lot of dental insurance policy that we have come across. Whether or not your insurance reimburses you largely depends upon policy restrictions as well as premiums paid by your employer. Our experience staff will make every effort to assist you in determining the benefit allowable under your policy provision.
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| What about financial arrangements? |
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There is a separate fee for the provision of Sedation. Like all other services we provide, the fee is determined by the care, skill, judgement as well as the length of time spent by the doctors. Our staff will be very happy to provide you with an estimate of the fee before treatment commences.
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| Who is an ideal candidate for Sedation? |
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Anyone who avoid seeking dental care due to fear or previous bad experience.
Anyone who might have had troubles getting numb with Local Anesthetics only or who tends to gag easily.
Anyone who dislike the sight and sound of dentistry and want their dentistry done efficiently, in complete comfort and without recall of the procedures.
Anyone who desires or needs to get a lot of treatments accomplished very comfortably, in as few visits as possible.
Anyone who are unable to cooperate physically or mentally, including very young children or the mentally retarded.
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