Re:dental visits /oxygen

[Guest guest]

Felice, why does dentist have oxygen in office

and what 'dental procedures' does a dentist use

it for if you know? thanks

I know it releaves headaches. I have experienced

that first hand also.

[Guest guest]

I think I can answer this one somewhat. The oxygen is used for a few things

that I know of. One is that if you have a bad reaction to NO oxygen can stop it

in seconds. Also, if you have a problem with epinephrin in the novacaine if you

breath oxygen you don't have that heart racing, sweating thing. Also, if you're

removing amalgums you have to wear a dam and have a mask thing over your face

and you breath oxygen and not the ambient air in the room, very important for

not recontaminating with the fumes.

bbw <barb1283@...> wrote: Felice, why does dentist have oxygen in

office

and what 'dental procedures' does a dentist use

it for if you know? thanks

I know it releaves headaches. I have experienced

that first hand also.

[Guest guest]

I'm not so sure that oxygen will prevent " heart racing and sweating "

caused by the epinephrine in dental novocaine, procaine or carbocaine.

You should check that fact with your dentist. I use an alternative

method for preventing heart racing and sweating, when I'm in the

dentist's chair. During the times that I am taking a high dose of oral

albuterol,for asthma, and am on the verge of those symptoms, already,I

tell my dentist to give me those injections WITHOUT epinephrine.

(Inhaled Albuterol is not likely to give you those symptoms) The

epinephrine-free versions are usually stocked in every dentist's

office, but you should phone ahead, a few days before your appointment,

to make sure that they will have it on hand, when you arrive. I have

the words " NO EPINEPHRINE " written, in large letters, on the outside of

my file, at the dentist's office.

Naturally, like everything in medicine, there is a trade-off to be

made. The function of the epinephrine, inside the novocaine injection,

is to act as a vasoconstrictor, and prevent the novocaine from rapidly

dissipating throughout your body, instead of staying at the tooth that

is being worked on. Without the epinephrine, I usually require up to 8

injections, instead of the usual 2, for a root canal, since the non-

epinephrine injection will only give pain relief for ten minutes. That

much novocaine will sometimes numb BOTH SIDES of your face, by the time

you leave the dentist's office. Most of the numbness will wear off

within one hour, since there is no epinephrine to delay your body's

blood vessels from carrying out of your body.

The SOURCE of your heart racing can be a toxic mold reaction, or a

multiple chemical sensitivity reaction. My source happens to be a

medicine. Whatever YOUR cause happens to be, if you tell your dentist

that you are experiencing heart racing, and discuss the non-epinephrine

option, with him, he might agree that it is the best way to go. Bear in

mind, that time is money, for the dentist, and giving you up to eight

injections, takes eight times longer, than giving you one injection,

since he has to pause his work on you, to inject you. I hate gum

injections, as much as, if not more than, you do. I take them, because,

in MY case, I fear the alternative possible cardiac complications, MORE

than I fear the injections. I'm 63 years old, and, thankfully, I have

no heart problems, and I want to keep it that way.

Joe

--- In , Edy Rayfield <edyrayfield@...>

wrote:

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> I think I can answer this one somewhat. The oxygen is used for a few

things that I know of. One is that if you have a bad reaction to NO

oxygen can stop it in seconds. Also, if you have a problem with

epinephrin in the novacaine if you breath oxygen you don't have that

heart racing, sweating thing.