It’s a simple fact, most people don’t like to visit the dentist. Typically, most people associate dental visits with the sound of drills, being uncomfortable, and most importantly, pain. Even worse for some people is the fear of needles and syringes when they visit the dentist. But a dental visit doesn’t have to be a terrible experience, even if you are going in to get a cavity filled or for a root canal procedure.
At Menlo Park Dental Excellence we take every step necessary to ensure that you have the most pleasing dental experience possible. As part of that, we offer computerized anesthesia in our Menlo Park office.
As everyone knows, anesthesia is used to block any feelings of pain you may have during your dental procedure. What you may not know is a dental office that provides a computerized anesthetic, like we do at Menlo Park Dental Excellence means that the patient has less pain when they are administered their anesthesia. Studies from the Journal of The American Dental Association have even shown that using a computerized system of delivering anesthesia is an especially effective way to deliver an anesthetic and more effective. That means the numbing agent went to the right spot more often.
For patients, that means not only less pain, but it means the anesthesia can be delivered more accurately to the exact spot it is supposed to go. With computerized anesthesia, it’s less likely that the dentist will have to numb your entire jaw and you will be stuck drooling for the rest of the day. By using a computerized anesthetic, it will hit the tooth and gum it is supposed to and you won’t be left numb for eight hours.
Menlo Park Dental Excellence uses a special tool to inject and administer our computerized anesthesia. The best part is, it doesn’t even look like a syringe. The device is lightweight and is about the size of a pen. Your dental technician will first take a cotton swab with a dab of gel that is a topical numbing agent. Then, we will use the device to administer the anesthetic. The device painlessly provides a slow and even-flow of anesthetic to the area of your mouth that needs it. So even if you are someone who is afraid of needles and syringes, you won’t have to worry. This device is simple, small and best of all, painless.
Our system using computerized anesthesia in Menlo Park allows us to hit the exact spot where your tooth needs to be numbed. That means, you are less likely to experience pain while your dental procedure is taking place, and you will have less numbness in the jaw, lips and face after the procedure is completed so you can get on with your life quicker. Going to the dentist doesn’t have to be an experience you dread anymore, thanks to computerized anesthesia at Menlo Park Dental Excellence.
