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General anaesthesia and sedation
General anaesthesia
General anaesthesia is an artificially induced deep sleep in which all senses are completely switched off. An anaesthetist (a specialist in anaesthesiology) controls its depth and continuously monitors heart rate, breathing and blood pressure. Treatment under general anaesthesia is therefore a safe option.
With modern medicines, formerly common side effects such as nausea, dizziness or vomiting occur much less frequently. After dental treatment and a sufficient monitoring period, the anaesthetist discharges you and your child home.
Nevertheless, treatment under general anaesthesia is not standard treatment!
General anaesthesia carries risks and is not an optional service on request. Strict medical indications apply; it is only performed when pain cannot be eliminated by another approach.
Regular preventive appointments after treatment under general anaesthesia are the only way to reduce fears, improve the child's oral environment and avoid further treatment under general anaesthesia.
General anaesthesia allows all defects to be treated, but does not change the risk of tooth decay.
Addressing the causes, improving oral hygiene at home and changing eating and drinking habits, combined with professional preventive care, can improve long-term caries risk.
Oral sedation with Dormicum
Dormicum is a calming medicine for children, individually dosed and administered by an anaesthetist.
Depending on the patient, it is given as a syrup, nasal drops or a suppository and works for approximately three to four hours. It reduces anxiety, calms children and makes them sleepy. Anaesthesia can then be induced, or the necessary dental treatment performed. Children also retain less memory of the treatment.
Dormicum does not guarantee successful dental treatment: a few children have a paradoxical reaction. Despite an otherwise sufficient dose, they do not become sleepy or calm as intended. Rarely, the opposite occurs and they become very excited, making treatment impossible in that state.
The same fasting rules apply to treatment with Dormicum as to general anaesthesia.
Our anaesthesia team
In these cases, the anaesthesia team of Dr. Ick & colleagues (www.anästhesieteam.com(in German)) supports us with experienced anaesthetists and anaesthesia assistants.
Thank you for your consistently excellent help and support!
Our “dream team”:
01Dr. med. Dirk Ick, specialist in anaesthesiology
02Dr. med. Michal Skripko, specialist in anaesthesiology
03Anton Gruber, paramedic, anaesthesia specialist assistant
04Maximilian Liebhart, registered nurse, specialist nurse for emergency care, anaesthesia specialist assistant
05Christoph Ruhland, specialist nurse for anaesthesia and intensive care
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