Sleep Dentistry

Pacific Smiles Dental understands that dental visits can be overwhelming and can cause high levels of anxiety for some patients. Often this level of anxiety can discourage patients from visiting the dentist and thereby preventing them from obtaining treatment often required to improve their oral health.

Pacific Smiles Dental is passionate about providing dental care that promotes positive dental health, helping patients achieve beautiful, healthy smiles for life. For this reason, Pacific Smiles Dental offers Sleep Dentistry procedures at selected Pacific Smiles Dental Centres by appropriately trained Practitioners. Patients can choose to either sleep through their dental treatment whilst under general anaesthetic in a private hospital, or via sedation in selected Dental Centres.

General anaesthetic procedures are carried out in private hospitals using the latest in specialised dental equipment and materials. Patients are required to visit a Pacific Smiles Dental Centre for a consultation (including a dental examination and diagnostic x-rays). Arrangements are then made with the appropriate private hospital where their treatment will be undertaken by an accredited dentist from Pacific Smiles Dental. Most dental patients are admitted as day only patients and ordinarily discharged within 2 hours of their procedure.

As an alternative, dental treatment can also be carried out with the help of sedation in selected Dental Centres. Sedation options available include Penthrox, Nitrous Oxide (also known as laughing gas) and intravenous sedation. Penthrox and nitrous oxide are both inhaled by the patient and offer relief from both pain and anxiety. Intravenous sedation is administered by an Anaesthetist in the Dental Centre and uses a combination of sedative and pain relieving medicaments to create a drowsy and dream-like state of deep, calming relaxation for the entire duration of the dental procedure.