Does laughing gas help a lot?!
Question:
Does laughing gas help a lot?
Answers:
To be honest,laughing gas is for kids less than age 15 who have some anxiety toward dental treatment. Half of my patients are kids and most of them like laughing gas. It really works miracles in kids. The kids who would not even let me have a look in their mouth would let me extract their teeth without a word from their mouth. Parents like it too as they do not have to try hard convince their kids to go to dentist.
But when I use them in adults, it usually helps them just a bit. I believe the reason for that is by the time the kids turn into adults their anxiety towards dental treatment converts itself into established "fear". And nitrous is not for fear, it is for anxiety.
on 0-10scale where 0 is you are not at all scared of dentist and 10 is extremely scared of dentist, then :
if your fear/anxiety toward dental treatment is from "0-4" Nitrous will surely help;
if your fear/anxiety toward dental treatment is from "5-7" Nitrous may help;
if your fear/anxiety toward dental treatment is from "8-10" you are lucky if Nitrous will help.