Do dentists use sleeping gas when doing a route canal?
Although we commonly use the word “Novacaine” to describe dental anesthesia, no dentist uses that anymore: they commonly use Lidocaine, Septocaine, Articaine/Polocaine called local anesthesia (where you get an injection in the mouth). “Laughing gas” is called Nitrous Oxide and is commonly used in dental practices to relax the patient and create a mild analgesia (dulls the pain but doesn’t take it away fully) and some offices will give you nitrous if you request it then while you are relaxed will give you the local anesthesia. It is amazing how much the mental process plays in if the patient is expecting a great deal of pain they tense up, get stressed out and make it more of an ordeal than it really is. Most patients find it is really not as bad as they anticipated. Some dentists will do conscious oral sedation where they give you a pill and although you don’t lose consciousness (they can ask you to turn your head etc and you can react and comply) but you are kind of out of it. This re
