Posted on 10/25/2016 11:01:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
All of our young children have been given Versed followed by sevoflurane, with an anesthesiologist present. This is in Washington State and is routine under about age 8.
I had a similar experience. By the time I was 10, once the dentist had all of my teeth filled, he started over, taking out the old fillings and putting in new ones. I dread to think what that mercury amalgum has done to me over the years.
I’ve had sleep dentistry twice (same dentist); always had an excellent recovery; no bad after effects.
And, I’m so confident of his skills as a dentist, I’m going back for a third trip very soon; and I expect to experience the same results as the first two.
As a retired board certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon I always get perturbed with these articles. There are dentists and there are dentists. Not to specify who the treating dentist is, is unfair to the profession and paints everyone with the same brush. My four years of post graduate training after dental school was intensive in hospital and outpatient based anesthesia and sedation. I practiced over 35 years and did thousands of anesthesia and sedation cases. On any day something bad can happen and even the best of providers (even MD’s and CRNA’s) can have bad outcomes. There is always a piling on to sensationalize the unfortunate situations. If someone is negligent or not trained to standards (my own society of OMS requires this) then surely there should be repercussions. To the countless number of patients who benefit from safe, skilled and cost efficient office based anesthesia and sedation these attacks against the whole dental profession is unwarranted and inaccurate.
Yes. Mexicans.
Mexicans put their babies to sleep with the bottle in their mouths. The milk or formula rots their teeth.
It's laziness, pure and simple.
We have known of this mexi-dynamic for a long time.
Lots and lots of mexi-kids have silver caps on their baby teeth. BABY TEETH!
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