Anxiolysis and Relative Analgesia (N20) in Modern Dental Practice
Learn how to deliver nitrous oxide in a clinical setting
Description
Many of our patients are quite anxious about seeking and receiving dental treatment. In fact, it may lead to some people avoiding dental care completely until excruciating pain gives them no choice. Dentists should be able to provide alternatives to control a patient’s anxiety and to assist them to receive treatment.
All participants will have the opportunity to administer and experience the full range of effects of relative analgesia using nitrous oxide-oxygen, and after completing the course, will feel confident in setting up and administering this agent.
Topics include:
- The basis of pain and anxiety
- Review of basic life support
- The utilisation of nitrous oxide sedation
Includes morning tea and lunch
Learning objectives
Learning objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the key causes of fear and anxiety in our patients
- Revise basic life support
- Be confident to administer nitrous oxide in your surgery
This is a hands-on course and you will have the opportunity to practice these skills on other participants.
Presenters
Dr Vivian Mascarenhas is a general dentist and an AHPRA endorsed dental sedationist. He has working in both the public and private sectors. Viv received his post graduate qualification in sedation from the University of Sydney in 2015. Up until 2021 he worked as a clinician in an exclusively sedation-based practice. He now exclusively provides mobile sedation services to some 40 practices (both specialist and general) across the Perth metro region.