Dentist and Chill

Nitrous Oxide is safe, effective, and comforting

When you think about the dental office, what do you see? Pointy instruments gleaming in the beaming light? White knuckling armrests as a drill bores into your molar? Come to think of it, I should have written this post for Halloween. It sounds horrifying.

Enter laughter. Not the maniacal kind! Giggles. I’m talking about laughing gas.

Ok, so, to be clear the right amount of laughing gas won’t make you laugh, BUT it will relieve your anxiety. Think of it as a temporary trip to the enlightened realm of dentistry. Where you don’t mind that I’m pulling on your cheek like a fish to look WAYYYYYY back there. You just giggle.

In all seriousness, nitrous oxide, or laughing gas is an amazing and underutilized tool in the dental field. Laughing gas is simple to administer and is extremely safe. There are plenty of offices that try actual sedation with pharmaceuticals that have far more side effects before even trying nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is an anxiolytic, which means that it will reduce your anxiety (who DOESN’T need this in 2020) and it also increases your pain threshold, so you actually feel less pain.

As I said, it is safe. We want safe right now. It is in and out of your system within 10 minutes time, which means that you can be fully functional before and after your appointment. No need to miss any Zoom doom meetings (unless you’re looking for an excuse) and has no lasting side effects. On top of that, since we are COVID prepared over here, we invested in systems that are disposable and autoclavable so that there is no concern for cross contamination.

We are all about patient experience. I don’t want somebody sweating in fear as I come toward them. So if that sounds like you, come in, have a seat, grab a warm blankie, turn on Netflix and giggle with us.

It’s a whole new spin on Netflix and chill.