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Anesthesia for Dental Procedures

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While a significant amount of dental procedures can be done in an outpatient dental office under local anesthesia, there are numerous circumstances when the patient’s medical comorbidities require additional monitoring and deeper levels of sedation than can be provided in this setting. These may range in spectrum from mild anxiolysis performed by a dentist, to general anesthesia performed by an anesthesiologist. The content below offers an overview of human dental anatomy, dental notation, levels of sedation, common anxiolytics and anesthetic practices, guidelines for the management of dental anesthesia and potential adverse events.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Carolyn Barbieri M.D. & Meghan Whitley D.O.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hari Prasad Krovvidi Venkata

  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Mark Powell

  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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Barbieri, C., Whitley, M. (2018). Anesthesia for Dental Procedures. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_23

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