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We can combine Sedation Dentistry with Dentures, or with the patient’s dentures.

How is that accomplished?
A few steps prior to your sedation appointment, we can fabricate or begin to fabricate the denture. We can combine dentures with tooth removals. There are many patients who choose to go the route with Dentures, removable appliances. Many of those steps, the tedious process of fitting dentures, can be accomplished with the removal of the teeth and then a few steps of introducing the denture and delivering the denture at the same time.

Those combinations can offer patients an awful lot for those patients that just don’t care to come back to the dentist for multiple visits. Many of the patients enjoy that. In fact, you can go from a point where you can just have your teeth that day. Without Sedation, there are multiple steps that are involved, and yes, it tends to drag out the number of appointments we see you and we cannot combine them because of the steps that we can accomplish with Sedation Dentistry.

The types of procedures we can do with Sedation Dentistry is practically unlimited.

We can do all types of Restorative Dentistry, we can do Cosmetic Dentistry, we can do Oral Surgery. Any of these services are easily accomplished with Sedation.

We are also able to combine Sedation Dentistry with Cosmetic Dentistry. In fact, we currently have patients that are utilizing it. Simple, it is a step where the patient can choose what they want to do, they can preview the desired results, and we accomplish that in one to two short visits.

You CAN get Veneers done with Sedation Dentistry.

The nice thing about it is that with IV Sedation, it is a very short period of time. We can accomplish Veneering patients teeth in literally about an hours time.

Do we make Sedation Affordable?

There is a small cost involved with it. We do make arrangements to have a doctor come in and that cost is a little bit more. But many of times, what we do is ask patients just to make payments. There are different vehicles for patients to make payments: interest-free payment plans, the can prepay, all types of things are available to our patients.

Patients sometimes have the concept that they can’t afford it. It always comes up. I am really interested in explaining to patients that we have very successful patients, patients who are very wealthy, and we have those patients who are not and we work with them. We want to offer our Sedation services to them and we can phase these things and make it very affordable for them.

Traditional braces have been long been the requirement in orthodontics until recent developments brought about retainers and invisalign braces. Today we will compare Invisalign braces versus traditional orthodontics or braces.

Invisalign isn’t appropriate for complex bite problems or different cases of misalignment. Traditional wire and bracket braces are typically used for those complex problems.

Invisalign is commonly used to correct the following dental problems:
- Overly crowded teeth. When there is not enough room in the jaw for all of the teeth to fit comfortably or normally (one to five millimeters).
- Widely spaced teeth. When there is too much space between the teeth due to abnormal growth of the jaw or shifting of the teeth due to missing teeth (one millimeter to five millimeters).
- Overbite/overjet. When the upper teeth bite over the lower teeth.
- Crossbite. When the upper and lower jaws are misaligned, causing one or more upper teeth to bite on the inside of the lower teeth, on either the front and/or sides of the mouth.
- Mild relapse. After traditional braces have been removed, when some relapsing tooth movement has occurred.
- Invisalign may also be a treatment alternative for certain simple malocclusions (bite irregularities)

Invisalign aligners are removable, which allows great freedom for eating, drinking certain beverages, brushing and flossing. You should only drink water with them on, in order to avoid staining the aligners. Even though they come off, they still must be worn for at least 20 hours a day in order to reposition the teeth successfully. So yes that means you will still have to sleep with them in, unless it’s a cat nap. Typically you will use about twenty to thirty aligners for the upper and lower teeth to complete the treatment, which lasts on average about a year. Different alignment problems take different times. Each aligner moves the teeth in increments as small as .25 millimeters to .33 millimeters.

You might wonder, how do they create something so precise? They use computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing processes at the Align Technologies dental lab. These are based off of teeth impressions and are always custom made.

Don’t get too excited, traditional braces will still be used for things such as
- Crowding and spacing greater than five millimeters.
- Skeletal malocclusions.
- Discrepancies involving centric-relation/centric-occlusion (how the upper and lower jaw joints and jaw muscles close together).
- Teeth that are severely rotated.
- Open bites in the front and back of the mouth that need to be closed.
- Teeth that are severely tipped.
- Upper or lower jaws with multiple missing teeth.

Sedation & Gentle Dentistry

“Times are changing. Dentistry used to be a service where the dentist is the expert and we are going to tell you, you need this. Well that’s no longer true. It’s time to forget everything you thought you knew about going to the dentist. Just tell me what you want and why you want it, and I can help you figure out how to get there. In one visit, we can actually restore your entire mouth, teeth that are broken, change their size, their shape, and their color. We can truly do anything that you wish. Dr. Tim Clavin has treated many people who have avoided the dentist, just like you. I won’t start until your completely sedated and I’ll do everything in my power not to hurt you. No fears, no lectures, and literally no pain. Many don’t remember the procedures and with a small amount of post operative medication they do quite well.”

This is way to visit the dentist, find out more about Sedation and General Dentistry by visiting our website
www.sedationandgeneraldentistry.com or contacting us at 612-332-5122.

Dr. Tim Clavin is a Sedation Dentist Minneapolis Minnesota.

Do you or someone you know have a fear of the dentist? It is a very common fear that people have but there is hope in Sedation Dentistry.

There is more than one option to choose from when you choose sedation dentistry. Some dentists only use Oral Sedation while others also offer I.V Sedation.

Oral sedation is the most common option available.
Prescription medication is given to the patient so they can arrive relaxed. The patient will sleep or feel very relaxed during the visit.

I.V Sedation is not used as much but it is the more controlled option.

A patient will be sure to have full sedation during the entire visit and the level of sedation can be changed during the procedure.

To find out more about sedation dentistry contact Dr. Tim Clavin at his Minneapolis Cosmetic Dentist Office today.

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