The info page " What if I need dental work?" suggests nitrous oxide over freezing. Can anyone explain why? I have tooth extraction appt in a couple of weeks
I'm not sure that is such good idea to just go with nitrous oxide..I go with both..I get the nitrous to relax me and have the freezing so I dont feel pain...I'm the biggest baby when it comes to dental work..My dentist is really good at pulling teeth. But when I needed more than one extracted I went for I.V sedation at the oral surgeons..Maybe someone has had just nitrous oxide and it worked for them...Sorry I'm not much help with that..
Thanks stephanie, i've asked my dentist to look into it.. I spent 90 minutes in the chair 8 days ago with no freezing so i dont need the nitrous to relax. Compared to TN, dental work is a party lol. i just wondered if the freezing somehow irritates the TN. I can take a diazepam for the relaxing part
stephanie said:
I'm not sure that is such good idea to just go with nitrous oxide..I go with both..I get the nitrous to relax me and have the freezing so I dont feel pain...I'm the biggest baby when it comes to dental work..My dentist is really good at pulling teeth. But when I needed more than one extracted I went for I.V sedation at the oral surgeons..Maybe someone has had just nitrous oxide and it worked for them...Sorry I'm not much help with that..
Wow you are certainly brave..I want to be almost unconcious while at the dentist:)) A couple times after tooth extractions I wound up in the emergency room..My blood pressure goes sky high and I get very anxious..So they give me pills to lower my blood pressure and ativan to combat my anxiety..what procedure did you have done without freezing? ..I've read that epinephrine can trigger TN attacks..
my wonderful dentist came in on New Years day for me. A lot of poking and drilling as he was trying to get some of the infection to release to give me some relief but it was just too deep. "A" for effort though. I used to be terrified of dentists but I've had some very good ones so I'm not any more. Triggering a TN attack is my biggest fear when it comes to dental work. The tooth is broken but he assures me it will pop out no problem so it should be quick I hope
stephanie said:
Wow you are certainly brave..I want to be almost unconcious while at the dentist:)) A couple times after tooth extractions I wound up in the emergency room..My blood pressure goes sky high and I get very anxious..So they give me pills to lower my blood pressure and ativan to combat my anxiety..what procedure did you have done without freezing? ..I've read that epinephrine can trigger TN attacks..
bebe said:
my wonderful dentist came in on New Years day for me. A lot of poking and drilling as he was trying to get some of the infection to release to give me some relief but it was just too deep. "A" for effort though. I used to be terrified of dentists but I've had some very good ones so I'm not any more. Triggering a TN attack is my biggest fear when it comes to dental work. The tooth is broken but he assures me it will pop out no problem so it should be quick I hope
stephanie said:Wow you are certainly brave..I want to be almost unconcious while at the dentist:)) A couple times after tooth extractions I wound up in the emergency room..My blood pressure goes sky high and I get very anxious..So they give me pills to lower my blood pressure and ativan to combat my anxiety..what procedure did you have done without freezing? ..I've read that epinephrine can trigger TN attacks..
btw i had ativan once before dental work. didnt remember a thing or how i got home lol
I had dental work done in 2012 that did trigger TN. It was because I had a shot in the back of my mouth. It caused me to become bilateral with jaw and ear pain. So now I have work done under anesthesia. I recently (12-22) had a tooth worked on,under general anesthesia and so far it's not too bad... the tooth is still trying to settle down. But I am not experiencing any NEW TN problems. Best of luck to you.
Nitrous oxide is twilight anesthesia administered without gum injections. For people who have a confirmed diagnosis of facial neuralgia, deep injections for dental work have a risk of increasing pain levels in the face or widening the distribution of pain, by irritating branches of the trigeminal nerve which serve the jaw and upper gums. I hope this serves to clarify.
Regards, Red
I am uncertain of the sense in which some of our posters are using the term “freezing”. Additional comments welcome.
Yes, Red...I've never heard of the term freezing either...I don't know what that means...??
I took "freezing" to mean the numbing anesthetic they give to numb your teeth..Maybe I'm wrong in assuming that?....Nitrous oxide doesn't do much for me except relax me a bit..It doesnt help numb the teeth he is going to work on..So I need the numbing meds(freezing)....
Maybe its a Canadian thing lol. I was referring to the Novocaine or Zylocaine numbing agents
Richard A. "Red" Lawhern said:
I am uncertain of the sense in which some of our posters are using the term "freezing". Additional comments welcome.
Also, thanks for the clarification Red. I will discuss this further with my dentist