If you require extensive dental work done throughout the mouth, it can feel overwhelming. The best way to approach this would be to have a quadrant of teeth treated in one session.
This optimises efficiency in anaesthesia (you only need one set of injections to complete multiple fillings) and workflow (multiple teeth can be treated in one session).
If you require management for dental anxiety, sedation is employed to help patients cope with long sessions of dental work. Sedation not only helps with reducing fear and anxiety, but it also reduces pain from anaesthetic injections and helps make the time seem to pass much more quickly. Options for sedation include IV sedation, oral sedation (sedative tablets usually taken the night before which also help you to sleep) and nitrous oxide sedation (laughing gas). Oral and nitrous oxide sedation can be combined.
Patients with busy schedules appreciate having quadrant dentistry because it means fewer visits to complete the work they require.
