For Australians with high dental anxiety, fear can prevent them from seeking essential care, but safe, effective sedation dentistry options can help. At Aria Dental, our sleep dentists offer tailored mild to deep dental anaesthesia in Perth CBD, Midland, and Scarborough, WA, to ensure stress-free treatment! Whether due to past trauma or embarrassment, we’re here to help you feel calm and supported throughout your visit.
Also called laughing gas, nitrous oxide is the mildest type of dental anaesthesia and is even safe for toddlers. You breathe in a carefully mixed dosage of nitrous oxide and oxygen through a small nose mask. The calming and euphoric effects of laughing gas are felt within minutes of inhalation, providing rapid relief from anxiety and discomfort.
Our team can adjust the concentration of nitrous oxide to ensure a customised level of sedation. After treatment, any residual traces are flushed out of your system by breathing in pure oxygen, allowing you to resume your daily activities immediately.
An oral sedative is taken at home an hour before your scheduled visit, and sometimes also the night before. Although some drift off to sleep, our team can easily awaken you during or after treatment. Your heart rate, oxygen level, blood pressure, and breathing are closely monitored throughout your procedure. Due to the sedative effects of the medication, a designated person will need to drive you to and from our clinic.
IV sedation in Perth CBD, Midland, and Scarborough, WA, is ideal for more complex procedures such as full-arch dental implants. The form of dental anaesthesia is delivered via a thin needle into a vein in your hand or arm connected to the IV. Our team monitors your vital signs throughout your procedure to ensure you have no adverse reactions to the sedative.
You will feel relaxed, calm, and peaceful during your procedure and may even nod off. The sedative medications cause short-term amnesia, so you will have little to no memory of your treatment. Due to lingering side effects, a designated person must drive you home, and you should rest.
General anaesthesia involves using medication to induce a deep, sleep-like state. During general anaesthesia, you are unconscious and unaware of the procedure. General anaesthesia is usually reserved for more extensive procedures and is administered by a trained anaesthesiologist in a hospital setting. As the strongest type of sedation, strict and mandatory guidelines are followed before, during, and after the procedure to ensure your safety and a complication-free recovery.
Anaesthesia costs vary based on your medical history, sedation type, procedure duration, and whether performed in-house or in a hospital setting. At Aria Dental, we offer flexible payment methods including cash, cards, bank transfer, and Superfund financing options. Medicare may partially cover some IV sedation dentistry and general anaesthesia costs.
