Improve Efficiency, Patient Experience, and Expand Your Practice with Ease

Partnering with Chicago Dental Anesthesia allows you to treat a wider range of patients comfortably in your own office. Our mobile anesthesia services support increased treatment plan acceptance, broaden your clinical capabilities, and enhance overall practice productivity. Challenging patients can be managed safely and effectively in-house, and are better able to afford treatment compared to in a hospital setting.

How to get started

1. Fill out our contact form, send us an email (info@chicagodentalanesthesia.com), or call us at (731) 231-6065

2. Set up a site Visit

3. Schedule your sedation date!

Coordination of Care

When you and your patient are ready to schedule anesthesia services, please contact our office to arrange a treatment date. To help us select the most appropriate appointment time, be prepared to share the estimated treatment length and proposed procedure plan. After scheduling, our office will contact the patient directly to review pre and post-operative instructions and assist with completing the required health history forms and consent documents.

What to Expect

Our team will arrive approximately 30 minutes before the scheduled appointment to set up the operatory with the necessary anesthesia equipment. Setup requires minimal space and will not disrupt your workflow. Before treatment begins, the anesthesiologist will perform a pre-operative evaluation, including a focused physical exam, review of medical history, confirmation of NPO status, and discussion of the anesthetic plan.

Once the patient is prepared, anesthesia will be initiated, and the dental provider may begin treatment shortly thereafter. At the end of the procedure, the anesthesiologist will manage the patient’s recovery and determine when they are ready for discharge. Recovery can take place in the dental chair or in a designated recovery room, depending on your office setup.

Types of Sedation

The choice of anesthetic technique depends on several factors, including the patient’s medical history, physical status, the type of dental procedure, and expected duration of treatment. We collaborate closely with both the provider and the patient to develop a safe, efficient, and individualized anesthetic plan.

Our services range from IV moderate sedation to deep sedation and general anesthesia. Airway management techniques may include endotracheal intubation, laryngeal mask airways, or nasopharyngeal airways, depending on the needs of the case.

Definitions taken from ADA guidelines:

Moderate/Conscious Sedation
A drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully to verbal commands, either alone or accompanied by light tactile stimulation. No interventions are required to maintain a patent airway, and spontaneous ventilation is adequate. Cardiovascular function is usually maintained.

Note: In accord with this particular definition, the drugs and/or techniques used should carry a margin of safety wide enough to render unintended loss of consciousness unlikely. Repeated dosing of an agent before the effects of previous dosing can be fully appreciated may result in a greater alteration of the state of consciousness than is the intent of the dentist. Further, a patient whose only response is reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is not considered to be in a state of moderate sedation.

The following definition applies to the administration of moderate or greater sedation: titration – administration of incremental doses of a drug until a desired effect is reached. Knowledge of each drug’s time of onset, peak response and duration of action is essential to avoid over sedation. Although the concept of titration of a drug to effect is critical for patient safety, when the intent is moderate sedation one must know whether the previous dose has taken full effect before administering an additional drug increment.

Deep sedation
A drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients cannot be easily aroused but respond purposefully following repeated or painful stimulation. The ability to independently maintain ventilatory function may be impaired. Patients may require assistance in maintaining a patent airway, and spontaneous ventilation may be inadequate. Cardiovascular function is usually maintained.

General anesthesia
A drug-induced loss of consciousness during which patients are not arousable, even by painful stimulation. The ability to independently maintain ventilatory function is often impaired. Patients often require assistance in maintaining a patent airway, and positive pressure ventilation may be required because of depressed spontaneous ventilation or druginduced depression of neuromuscular function. Cardiovascular function may be impaired. Because sedation and general anesthesia are a continuum, it is not always possible to predict how an individual patient will respond. Hence, practitioners intending to produce a given level of sedation should be able to diagnose and manage the physiologic consequences (rescue) for patients whose level of sedation becomes deeper than initially intended.