Dental Treatment Under General Anesthesia
Periodic check-ups and preventive early treatments are sometimes neglected due to the fear of the dentist, which is very common in society. Many patients cannot have their dental treatment done for reasons such as fear or gag reflex. In procedures with a high capacity to create stress, techniques are used to ensure that treatments are not remembered. Hypnosis, sedation, general anesthesia can be counted among these techniques.
Operations such as multiple implant applications in the field of maxillofacial surgery, buried twenty-year-old operations, cyst-tumor surgery can be performed comfortably and successfully under general anesthesia, especially in patients with phobia. Moreover, positive progress is observed in the elimination of dental phobias in some of these patients after surgery.
However, in addition to surgical procedures, routine dental treatments can be performed under general anesthesia in pediatric patients who are afraid or uncooperative. In such cases, pediatric dentist specialists with general anesthesia experience can provide the comfort of pediatric patients and their families by performing all necessary treatments in a single session.
In some cases, only the severe gurgling reflex may necessitate general anesthesia. Because even the examination can be very challenging in such patients, and it may not be possible to apply the ideal treatment on the couch.
On the other hand, general anesthesia is a method that we frequently apply for dental treatments of individuals with a restrictive disability; We can perform the routine treatment of these patients, who often have problems in performing oral hygiene, with this method.
