Throughout the world there is considerable variation in the techniques used to manage anxious dental patients requiring treatment. Traditionally anxious or phobic dental patients may have been sent for general anaesthesia to allow dental treatment be undertaken. While this is still the case for the more invasive oral surgical procedures, such as wisdom teeth extraction, sedation in general dentistry is becoming more popular. Various sedation techniques using many different anaesthetic agents have gained considerable popularity over the past 30 years. While the practice of sedating patients for dental procedures is invaluable in the management of suitably assessed patients, patient safety must always be the primary concern. Medical, dental and psychosocial considerations must be taken into account when evaluating the patient need and the patient suitability for sedation or general anaesthesia. The regulations that govern the practice of dental sedation vary throughout the world, in particular regarding the techniques used and the training necessary for dental practitioners to sedate patients. It is necessary for medical and dental practitioners to be up to date on current practice to ensure standards of practice, competence and safety throughout our profession. This article, the first in a two-part series, will provide information to practitioners on the practice of sedation in dentistry, the circumstances where it may be appropriate instead of general anaesthesia and the risks involved with sedation. It will also discuss the specific training and qualifications required for dental practitioners to provide sedation. The second article in this series will outline the different techniques used to administer inhalation, oral and intravenous sedation in dentistry and will focus on specific methods that are practiced.

The use of anaesthetic agents to provide anxiolysis and sedation in dentistry and oral surgery.

Providing Anesthesia in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Office: A Look Back, Where We Are Now and a Look Ahead.

Heidbrink Award--The evolution of ambulatory anesthesiology in dentistry.

I present a brief early history of Procedural Sedation and Analgesia (PSA). I have highlighted the crucial milestones in the journey prior to the eventual progression to modern PSA as well as naming the outstanding pioneers who originally opened the field. I show how the seminal work started with the discovery of the anaesthetic and analgesic actions of nitrous oxide and progressed via nitrous oxide to intravenous conscious sedation and minimal sedation with nitrous oxide. Although the discovery and true pioneers of both anaesthesia and later PSA (Procedural sedation and analgesia) were dentists, physicians wrongly attribute both these discoveries to their own profession. I have emphasized the misconceptions regarding the actual pioneers of PSA, mainly because of incorrect and often selective citations and misinterpretations. These errors have led to confusion and have obfuscated the early history of PSA. They have also distorted scientific priorities and therefore the scientific record. The paper is an attempt to remove and correct such distortions and present the true record in the light of the verifiable historical facts.

Early History and Pioneers of Procedural Sedation and Analgesia

Prevention and treatment of selected complications with local anesthesia alone--and with the adjuvants.

Dental anesthesiology: its history and continuing evolution. Niels Bjorn Jorgensen 2nd memorial lecture.

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Dental anesthesiology: its history and continuing evolution. Niels Bjorn Jorgensen 2nd memorial lecture.