As many as one in four people has a fear of visiting the dentist. This fear is often due to a previous bad experience or, in some cases, a fear that the treatment will be painful.

We take great care in ensuring that you have the best possible experience when they visit us. If you have a fear of the dentist it’s important to let us know when you first make contact. We can then make sure that from the moment you arrive at the practice we provide you with the help you need to make your visit as easy-going and stress-free as possible.

If you are particularly phobic, it may be necessary to use one of a range of dental sedation techniques. Dental sedation, or dental anaesthesia, doesn’t put you to sleep like a general anaesthetic. It puts you into a deeply relaxed state where you are still conscious and able to converse with your dentist. Not all our practices offer sedation, and it’s only available privately so please check with your local Oasis dentist to find out more.

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Sedation is a safe, precise, and highly effective technique for management of moderate to more severe levels of dental fear and can be used for patients who are not physically or behaviourally able to cooperate during dental procedures.

At Dental Works our practitioners are fully qualified to administer sedative dugs to help you relax. You remain quite drowsy for the entire procedure, often unaware of the treatment going on, but able to respond to the dentist when necessary. Following a short sleep, you’ll be back to normal and most patients report not remembering anything about the treatment. There are no general anaesthetics involved, so it is very safe, and nervous/anxious patients can have treatments they would not otherwise consider.