Janet Boxer, a 14-year-old was quite upset with the way she was tricked into anesthesia during her childhood for dental extractions. “The experience indeed deteriorated my dental future,” says Janet.

There are other miseries that I could share with all my buddies, like the demise of my grandma, that I could share with everyone - the cattle in my backyard, the hens and ducks in the coop, my stinking ferret, with my favorite pet turkey, and also family and friends. However, the miseries that remained after going to a dentist and belonged to me alone,” says Janet.

“I guess a visit to the dentist seemed to be end of my infancy and I was introduced to the world of contradictions where people speak one and practice one,” the dentist is one who did that always.

“One night, after mom bag piping us to slumber, I woke up with a painful tooth. Mom came and said she will tan my back. I remember crying and falling asleep.

The following morning has been even worse with my sis and brother teasing me and adding salt to the insult.

Salt! I remember grandma asking me to keep a pinch of it on the gums that is causing ache and I did so and felt relieved for sometime as well.

Sometime later I remember I was dragged to dentist, where I created a hell there for RNs.

One elderly nurse came and gave a beautiful pink towel and asked me to smell, I did and can’t remember what they all have done. I know they cheated me as a fool and went back home without even thanking anyone there.”

Janet continues, “As I went back I noticed one thing. There in no more pain and I could eat what I was doing without any ‘ouch’ or ‘ahs’. I thanked my doctor and the sweet nurse that made me smell pink towel containing sedative.”

“Yes!” Says a London-based dental surgeon. Sedation via inhalation is most anesthesia administrating techniques especially in dentistry. The most commonly used mixture is the combination of oxygen and nitrous oxide which is more popular as ‘laughing gas.

“To go to a dentist itself is anxiety for many a patients, but doctors say that this technique of giving laughing gas sedation can relieve them of their anxiety and make them comfortable. This is widely used in United States and is now spreading widely in UK as well,” says the dental expert based in London.

Laughing gas can make a patient more comfortable and the dental expert can work his way through accomplishing his dental treatment very effectively.

However, laughing gas is not called for certain people with asthmatic conditions and heart ailments, warns the expert.

When laughing gas is administered great majority of the patients experience some initial lightheadedness. Noteworthy is that this sinks down slowly as a cozy feeling. Several patients complain of some numbness of fingers and toes.

This same numbness is experienced within the oral cavity and it is a plus to the dentist that want to maneuver as well as patient. There are a few that perspire unusually more, but it is normal nitrous oxide effect.

The patient that received sedation will be conscious and responding to the doctors and can express any untoward effects and it is a blessing to the patient as well as doctor.

After the completion of the dentist’s intervention, patient will be receiving oxygen and this should make him/her feel absolutely normal once again. Sedation with nitrous oxide inhalation is very effective in gaggers and this technique eliminates gagging.

The technique is also suitable for those that have a complaint of hypertension, asthma, chest pain and those that suffered heart stroke.

“A small pep chat with the patient on use of this sedation technique using laughing gas helps the patient a lot and make him walk in and out of a dentique laughing,” remarks the expert.