Anesthetic was first used by dentist William T. Morton in the middle of the 19^th century, when he used sulphuric ether for painless treatment and extraction of teeth following Charles T. Jackson’s (a scientist and a scholar chemist) advice. Since then, more and more preparations have been suggested as anesthetics, making anesthesia more and more harmless year after year.

General anaesthesia in dentistry

Child dentistry with no pain or stress cannot be thought of without regard of latest anaesthetic techniques. Our child clinic Dental Fantasy is the first dental clinic in Russia to use the most advanced preparation for generally anaesthetized dentistry, Sevorane, by ABBOT Laboratories, USA. Today, it is the safest and most atoxic preparation for general anesthesia used in dentistry. It does not affect functions of the brain, heart, liver, or other important organs and systems.

When the child inhales twice or thrice through the special mask, he or she goes to sleep, and stays asleep the whole time of therapy. As soon as Sevorane is cut off, the child wakes up and is normally in 10 or 15 minutes in totally clear consciousness and ready to go home.

Now that our new children’s dental clinic is open, you can arrange an appointment for your child’s generally anaesthetized dental therapy on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday.

General anesthesia has its undoubted benefits for children’s therapy:

1. Generally anaesthetized dental therapy is guaranteed to cause no pain to the child.
2. The dentist has an opportunity to cure or extract as many bad teeth as necessary in one visit’s time.
3. The child is free from emotional stress, since during the generally anaesthetized dental therapy the child senses no smells, hears no noises the drill makes, sees no medical instruments etc.
4. The child is free from both pain and touch sensibility, that is, your child feels no vibration, pressure, jam etc.
5. The quality of the dental therapy can be raised dramatically through the use of preparations arresting salivation.
6. The risk of complications is lower when teeth are extracted with the use of general anesthesia.

Generally anaesthetized dental therapy is contraindicated if your child:

1. is ill with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus
2. takes digoxin or MAOIs (pargyline, pyrazidol, niamid, metralindol etc.)
3. has a poorly controlled cardiac abnormality with heart failure
4. suffers from bronchial asthma in acute condition
5. is pathologically obese with hemodynamic and respiratory trouble
6. suffers from anemia (hemoglobin less than 100 g/l)
7. has a low platelet count (less than 120 per µl)

To have generally anaesthetized dental therapy you will need to have your child’s analyses carried out and follow the recommendations of the anesthesiologist. Read more…

You will certainly have a lot of questions which you can ask over the phone, or you can use our Questions and Answers page, or you may prefer to ask you questions directly when seeing our anesthesiologist Natalia Gennadievna Klebanova personally. Having had a talk with you, she will choose the best policy in anesthesia and dental care for your child taking into consideration your child’s specifics and the examination results.