Our Office

We offer a relaxed, informal, and unperturbed atmosphere throughout our dental office to make your experience more comfortable. You will always find the most advanced, state-of-the-art techniques and equipment in our office.

We pride ourselves in providing a comfortable, sanitary environment for our patients. Our office is equipped with the latest dental instrumentation and we utilize the most advanced sterilization techniques available.

Nitrous Oxide is affectionately known as "laughing gas". It is used to alleviate anxiety during your dental visit. It is administered with a nose piece and you breathe Oxygen combined with Nitrous Oxide gas. You never lose consciousness and are never "out of control", but you don't care too much about what's going on. It's great if you're really worried about dental treatment.

Nitrous oxide is used in roughly one third of dental practices in the United States, especially to allay anxiety that many patients may have toward dental treatment, and it offers some degree of painkilling ability. The benefits of nitrous oxide are many, and the risks are few. The gas is administered with a comfortable mask placed over the nose, and the patient is instructed to breathe in through the nose and out through their mouth. As a precaution, patients should not eat anything for about two hours prior to use of the gas. The patient begins to feel a pleasant level of sedation in anywhere from 30 seconds to three or four minutes. The cheeks and gums will also begin to feel numb in about a third of the patients.

After the gas is adjusted to the appropriate dose, and the patient is relaxed and sedated, the dentist can comfortably give the anesthetic injection (if needed) to the patient, and then proceed with dental treatment. After the treatment is completed, the patient is given pure oxygen to breathe for about five minutes, and all the effects of sedation are usually reversed. Unlike IV sedation or general anesthesia, the patient can almost always leave the office by themselves, without an escort.

Sedation dentists are dentists who specialize in treating patients with a high amount of dental anxiety and phobias and  provide dental care for the apprehensive patient who may have had painful dental care in the past or a traumatic experience in the dental chair. Whatever the case may be, sedation dentists are there to make your visit to the dentist a relaxing and enjoyable one. A sedation dentist can help you improve the appearance and health of your teeth in as little as 1 or 2 sleep sessions, pain and worry-free.

Because you are completely comfortable and relaxed, sedation dentists can do years of dental treatments in one or two visits. They can replace crowns or dentures, whiten yellow or stained teeth, fix a chipped tooth with veneers, and fill cavities and more. People with very busy schedules can get the dental care they need, easily and quickly.

Are You A Candidate for Sleep Dentistry?

» Candidates for sedation dentistry are people who

· Have extreme dental fear and are dental phobic
· Have had previous traumatic dental experiences
· Have a very bad gag reflex
· Need complex dental work done in less time
· Have overly sensitive teeth
· Have difficulty responding to freezing and getting numb
· Hate the sounds and smells of the dental office
· Hate the tastes of products used by the dentist
· Have a needle or shot phobia
· Are extremely embarrassed about their teeth