Like going to a professional pediatric dentist (children dentist), your dentist can use a show and tell technique. By talking to you what will happen, you are then aware of what to expect and and experience during your dental procedure. Should you feel discomfort at anytime, simply signal to your dentist by raising your hand to pause treatment or taking a short break to recompose yourself.

To make your dental experience a pleasant one, you can make requests with your dentist to:

1. Have a companion with you in the treatment room during your appointment.
2. Practice deep breathing and meditation techniques to calm down prior to start of treatment.
3. Bring your personnel noise-canceling headphones or music to help you relax.

The fear of dentist and dental treatment can originate from several causes. By knowing your degree of dental fear will help to determine what are the coping dental fear options you may have to proceed on with dental treatments at your pace.

No. Sedation standards and process can vary from one dental clinic to another. There is a basic check-list of equipments and documents that dental clinics in Thailand must met to obtain a dental clinic license. However, the mandatory requirements is a minimal listing. A dental clniic can choose to obtain additional international standard certifications, but this is entirely optional.

You will have to check with your insurance coverage schemes. Some insurance do cover in-patient treatments for sedative dentistry and BIDH dental hospital supports claim forms where requested. Most basic insurance however cover mainly functional treatments.

There are basically 3 sedation dentistry types:

1. mild sedation : taking pills or use of gas
2. moderate sedation : IV sedation or gas
3. deep sedation : general anaethesia or sleep dentistry

The most affordable sedation dentistry option will be for mild sedation with oral medication. Individual takes administered medication prior to start of dental treatment. At BIDH dental hospital, it dental sedation costs from 2,250 baht (approx USD 75) as a package. This mild sedation package include pain management, anti-anxiety mediation, registered nurse monitoring and standard medical supplies such as O2 oxygen Cannula and monitoring equipments.

Any sedation option can carry risks of complications, it is therefore important that you do choose a provider that follows necessary standards, has qualified healthcare staff and required emergency equipments on standby.  

IV sedation refers to intravenous sedation. There are several IV sedation drugs and medications that may be used to place an individual in a semi-conscious state. Please do enquire with your anaesthesiologist should you have any preference on IV sedation drug type and especially if you have any allergies. Your anaesthesiologist doctor adjusts the dosage intravenously based “how deep” a state you are placed semi-conscious.

During IV sedation, you remain awake. During your dental treatment, you can react to your dentist and doctor, but do not feel pain as pain relieve mediction is normally also administered during the same time when IV sedation is done.

Before any sedation option is offered to you, a medical history is always taken to check that you are fit for dental sedation.

One common question when choosing your dental sedation option is how much sleep dentistry costs or how much does it cost to be put to sleep at the dentist. In Thailand, the costs of putting you to sleep for dental treatment varies with the number of hours that normally takes between 2 to 4 hours. 

At BIDH dental hospital, its sleep dentistry costs starts at 2 hours with a package price of round 69,500 baht (approx USD2,200). I that will include the operating room charge, the post recovery room charge, anesthesiologists fee, nursing care, and standard medical equipment, supplies and anesthesia/ pain medications.