We desire our patients to be as comfortable as possible during dental treatment, so by combining a unique mix of training, facilities and experience, we are able to offer four different ways to have your dentistry completed.

Normal dental practice of numbing the area for treatment. Some patients wish to listen to music through headphones during treatment and a ‘Discman’ is available for this purpose.

Nitrous oxide and oxygen is breathed through a nose-piece to produce a ‘light’ relaxing feeling. The patient is awake and able to converse with the dentist, but relaxed and comfortable.

Local anaesthesia is usually still required.

This technique involves the administration of sedation medication via an injection in the arm or hand.

Although the patient is not completely unconscious, a ‘twilight sleep’ is one way of describing the sensation the medication produces.

The deep relaxation allows us to provide patients with much more treatment per visit.

A period of fasting is required and patients must be accompanied home by a responsible adult in a private vehicle or taxi.

A general anaesthetic is administered by a specialist anaesthetist assisted by a theatre sister.

The patient is completely unconscious during the whole procedure and often, all necessary treatment can be completed in the one appointment.

As with intravenous sedation, there is a period of fasting before the appointment and the patient must be escorted home in a private vehicle or taxi.