Proposed Guideline Revisions for Dental Sedation and General Anesthesia: Why Target the Safest Level of Sedation?

Compend Contin Educ Dent

Faculty, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Brody School of Medicine, and Department of Foundational Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Published: September 2016

Recently proposed revisions to the American Dental Association's Guidelines for the Use of Sedation and General Anesthesia by Dentists, aimed at improving safety in dental offices, differentiate between levels of sedation based on drug-induced changes in physiologic and behavioral states. However, the author of this op-ed is concerned the proposed revisions may have far-reaching and unintended consequences.

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