One of the most common questions patients ask before dental implant treatment is whether sedation is necessary during the procedure.
Dr. Petros Yuvanoglu, our Co-Founder, explains that in most cases, sedation is not required for dental implant placement.
“To place dental implants, you don’t really need sedation. Regular anesthesia is the way to go. The same kind of anesthesia that somebody has to have in order to extract a tooth,” says Dr. Petros.
“But we understand that some people are very stressed. So if requested, we have the option of sedation. There are two kinds of sedation that somebody could have: It's the oral sedation, which is made with tablets done in our clinic. Second, we also have the so-called IV sedation, which is with a needle. And in order to do that, we go across the road from our clinic to Dubai London Hospital. With the help of an anesthesiologist, you will be sedated and we can do your surgery.
“So is it needed? Not really. But if it is required from you, yes, we can place implants for you with oral or IV sedation.”
Dr. Petros Yuvanoglu qualified as a dentist in 1995, earning his dental degree summa cum laude from Semmelweis University in Budapest. In 1998, he completed a three-year, full-time postgraduate specialist training in Prosthodontics at Tufts University in Boston, USA. He is a licensed Specialist Prosthodontist, an Adjunct Faculty Member at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
