WHAT IS SLEEP DENTISTRY?

We now offer Sleep Dentistry under medical supervision with a specialist anaesthetist trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive care.

It may be referred to as Simple Sedation or Twilight Sleep. This is also a form of dental sedation and allows an intense form of relaxation throughout the entire dental procedure. All of the safety equipment that you would expect in a major hospital will be provided to ensure your safety throughout the procedure and supervised at all times by a medical specialist.

Although you may have been unaware that it is available, once Sleep Dentistry is experienced you will have an entirely new, positive and relaxed outlook when you next see the dentist.

This safe and incredibly relaxing technique will allow your procedure to be undertaken in the most suitable environment.

Like general anaesthetic, sedation is incredibly safe and does not require you to be an inpatient of a hospital. Allowing your procedure to be done in our surgery offers Dr Kestenberg and his team access to all our resources making your treatment so much more efficient. It is safer than a general anaesthetic and does not require hospitalisation. You can have Sleep Dentistry here at Coburg Dental Group while comfortably resting in the dentist’s chair.

During Sleep Dentistry you are in a very calm and relaxed state and breathing spontaneously. Your sedation under Sleep Dentistry allows you to be calm, relaxed and unaware of anything going on before the dentist begins your treatment.

In our practice, Twilight or Sleep Dentistry is administered by Dr. Danny Raiz, who is an experienced specialist anaesthetist who specialises in dental sedation and maintains a practice providing sedation to dental patients as well as many other forms of complex surgery

You’ll be ready to go home after a short recovery period, in the company of a responsible adult who is prepared to stay with you for 24 hours. You are usually ready to go home after 20 to 30 minutes.