Up until the recent past, an appointment with the dentist was a dreaded experience for many people because of the hurt or pain associated with the dental visit. Processes such as tooth removal and fillings to replace cavities were very traumatizing because of the excruciating ache that accompanied these processes. However, in Dr. Kenneth J. Polke's office at American Dental Excellence we have introduced changes in the way dentistry is being delivered to make these processes pain free here in Denver Colorado.
New advances in dental technology such as lasers, oral sedation, IV sedation, Cat Scans, Same-Day crowns, Digital x-rays have all been introduced into Dr. Kenneth J Polke's American Dental Excellence office. Not only do these advances make the experience less traumatizing and pain free but actually improve the quality and time spent performing these processes.
As an example, lasers can now perform gum surgery without the use of scalpels and stitching not to mention that the healing time is speed up and the post-operative discomfort is greatly diminished.
Sedation is another pain free process. There are people who greatly fear dental instruments and procedures because of past experiences or because of negative information given to them by others. Sedation is a simple process where by drugs are administered to a patient either in pill form to be swallowed or by liquid form to be given in an an IV line. These pills can greatly calm a patient down and remove all anxiety or drugs administered in an IV line can typically put a patient to sleep. Either way the patient is much more receptive to having the procedures performed and typically the patient under IV Sedation usually doesn't remember even being in the office to have the procedures performed. Many IV Sedation patients tell us that that was their best dental experience ever while being sedated in Dr. Kenneth J. Polke's American Dental Excellence office.
For those folks who do not wish or need to be put to sleep (IV Sedation) the newer local anesthetics have improved the effectiveness of being numb in those local areas that are undergoing the dental procedures. Even root canal procedures and tooth extractions can be performed pain free with the newer dental local anesthetics to numb a patient. Nitrous Oxide ( also known as laughing gas) can even be administered to those folks who just have a fear of the local anesthetic injections but once numb are fine with having the dental procedures performed. They then just have to tolerate Dr. Polke's bad jokes. LOL
The laughing gas makes one feel very calm and relaxed as if they are floating on a cloud.
All of these pain free methods are safe when used by trained personnel. Dr. Kenneth J Polke is both licensed and certified to administer oral as well as IV Sedation drugs by the State of Colorado. Extra training and testing is required by the State of Colorado to perform these extra pain free methods. Bad effects are only seen when an overdose of these drugs are administered but advanced technology and training in that technology prevent this from happening. Be sure to ask Dr. Polke about this new technology used in both Oral and IV Sedation.
It is advisable to go for regular dental visits and there is no excuse for those who have a fear of seeing the dentist. With the introduction of pain free dentistry in Denver Colorado by Dr. Kenneth J Polke's office at American Dental Excellence what was once a traumatic experience is no longer the case. Oral health is of great importance and if left unchecked it can lead to a negative effect on one's general health to be discussed in later blog posts.
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