Anaesthetics for dental treatment.

[seasider18]

Is it the case in the U.K. nowadays that only Dental Hospitals can administer anaesthetics for tooth extractions ?

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

Dentists can provide a local anaesthetic prior to a filling or extraction by injecting an anaesthetic into the gum area. If your post of asking about a general anaesthetic where you put out by gas, then no, this is a general anaesthetic, and the procedure is not normally available from your high street dentist as the dentist would need to have specialist training for provide a general anaesthetic, if they don't have that training them an anaesthesiologist would need to be present. Where this service does exist on the high street it would be via private charging -it is expensive! NHS dental hospitals do provide the service but your dentist would need to refer you for this service.There is another process, IV Sedation - which is available from some dentists, see link below. I've no idea what the charging system for this is, whether it comes within the 3 stage charging system within the NHS or whether there is additional costs. Hopes this helps.

dentaly.org/en/restorative-...

[seasider18 in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

This is a wisdom tooth where the root has grown at a right angle into the jaw bone. My dentists wants to refer me to a colleague some distance away but as my mobility is not good I'm looking for a nearer alternative. I does not need doing quite yet but will not be far off.

[SpiritoftheFloyd in reply to seasider18]

Oh wisdom teeth are a problem. I had one taken out 40 years ago - in those days you got knocked out with gas, then 3 years ago another wisdom tooth started playing up with a grumbling abscess. My dentist gave me a course of penicillin which worked for a while then the pain came back, so I went back to the dentist and she said the only option was extraction - so local anaesthetic in gum, sat there for 10 mins for it the take effect, then she tested to see if I could feel anything, said No, so she said right lets get this done - 20 seconds later I heard the tooth dropping into a container - all sorted. I said "was that it?" - actually I said "wud hat hid?"! Hope you get it sorted.

[seasider18 in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

I'm 86 and hoping to avoid it coming out at the present time it is just sometimes sensitive to sweet things as I a.

[WeaverShaz in reply to seasider18]

I had a similar tooth extracted under sedation and local anaesthetic at a nhs treatment centre rather than a hospital. I was referred by my private dentist. I think the issue can be the time it could take, especially if the room shatter. I had to get a friend to take and collect me. It was pre COVID of course.

[seasider18 in reply to WeaverShaz]

My roots always seem to shatter and some times were left behind

[Speakeazi in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

Your own dentist might work with an anaesthetist who will be able to do the IV sedation at the practice. All GAs are done in hospital as it is so much safer.

[Fluffybee]

Hi, my dentist for some reason wouldn’t do IV sedation not even numbing my gum, he said it had something in it that he didn’t want to use, he may be being to precautionary so I’m now waiting for a consultant from the hospital who’ve said they’d do it.

It took 3 other dentists to agree to it due to meds and micro vascular dysfunction, which he didn’t know anything about which could’ve made a difference, I’m having 2 teeth out now due to one abscess on a tooth that’s now caused the tooth next to it to become a problem.

Let me know how you get on.?

[seasider18 in reply to Fluffybee]

Thank you for your story. Hopefully I can get away with this for some time. My wife goes to maxillo facial and I once asked a secretary in pre covid days about it and she said get your dentist to send us a copy of the X-Ray and we will give you a good sleep and do it for you.

[Harbourside]

Whilst registered with an NHS dentist a few years ago, I had to have a wisdom tooth, a cyst below it and a small part of the jaw bone removed. The NHS dentist referred me to the local hospital as it needed to be done under general anaesthetic. Several years on - and under a private dentist - another wisdom tooth was causing a tear inside my cheek and the tooth was removed there and then using local anaesthetic.

[seasider18 in reply to Harbourside]

I guess hospital treatments now will be difficult to get but hopefully still happen.