J Korean Dent Soc Anesthesiol.  2006 Dec;6(2):113-120. 10.17245/jkdsa.2006.6.2.113.

Introduction of Sedation Clinic at Department of Dentistry in Hanyang University Medical Center (I)

• Bing JH
• Chun JY
• Park CJ
• Hwang KG
• Shim KS

• KMID: 2345144
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.17245/jkdsa.2006.6.2.113

Abstract

Recently, sedation in dentistry is gaining more and more interests of dental practitioners. Moreover, "dental sedation", "sleep dentistry", or "pain-free dental treatment" become everyday words familiar to ordinary persons. Sedation clinic in Hanyang University Medical Center was open on Mar 2006 as specialty clinic at department of dentistry. Our aim is performing comfortable and safe dental treatments for patients who have problems for routine dental treatments because of extreme fear and anxiety or for patients who are supposed to have stressful and painful time-consuming treatment, such as sinus elevation and bone graft for implant placement. Our sedation was focused on conscious sedation, especially intravenous sedation using midazolam alone in technique. In two series, the sedation protocol at our Sedation Clinic will be described in details and then, analysis of our cases will be presented to help beginners for sedation in dentistry.

Keyword

Conscious sedation; Injections; Intravenous; Midazolam

MeSH Terms

Academic Medical Centers*
Anxiety
Conscious Sedation
Dentistry*
Humans
Midazolam
Transplants
Midazolam