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6 minutes ago, Happy enough said:

yeah they do that. tell him to wait it out in the police station. they'll send him to court in about 5 days and the fine won't be much. then he can go. and he will have learnt his lesson. no doubt it's pretty shit in the station he's in. but up to you if you just pay him out

Useless....

54 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Are you saying they use different sedation in LOS compared to overseas? It's all the same.

Your own link says

Sleep dentistry offers pain-free and anxiety-free dental procedures as patients are in a deeply relaxed state, though fully responsive.

and a GA induces a fully unconscious state during which the patient is completely non responsive.

 

Whoever wrote that website was wrong to include GA as a sedation. It's not.

Quibbling over semantics?

Local means applied to the specific location. General means....I think that you understand.

The options in Thailand are Local or GA.

I have referred to GA throughout.

Please take note that I am referring to GA for extensive dental work/oral surgery. I have no knowledge of sedation in a dentist's chair for someone who is simply afraid of going to the dentist.

2 hours ago, yang123 said:

The thread petered out in 2015 with no specific and proven recommendations of dentists in Thailand who provide IV sedation.  Did I miss anything?

Hospitals:  Bumrungrad and Samitivej do not offer it; waiting for a reply from Bangkok Chiang Mai Hospital whose website suggests they do offer it.

Large Buildings with lots of dentists within: Big-wig at Asavanant described IV sedation as "unethical"; excellent diagnostic consultation earlier this month at Bangkok Dental Hospital and the problem understood, but waiting for confirmation and an estimate.   .  

Perhaps you need to work your way backwards through the thread. Sometimes you can miss something staring you in the face.

1 hour ago, yang123 said:

Hmm...

The section in the Silom Dental site linked above that deals with sedation dentistry indicates that neither IV sedation nor nitrous oxide sedation is available.  (Also appears that the text has been lifted from a  US web-site - see reference to State Board of Dentistry).

 

So, to repeat the question: where in Thailand is sedation dentistry available?  Any recent experiences? 

Perhaps you haven't bothered to peruse the thread, but I can see recommendations on the this thread. Perhaps just not at your location.

1 minute ago, yang123 said:

Relevant to this thread since I now live in Thailand.  Thanks for the link.

I'm posting about actual experiences in Thailand 

Just now, yang123 said:

UK; London & elsewhere.  

Not relevant to this thread then. This is a Thailand specific question.

http://www.silomdental.com/oral_surgery_sedation_dentistry.html

25 minutes ago, yang123 said:

I've received IV sedation for dental treatment over the last 30 years.  All while sitting in a dentist's chair.

In which country and location?

40 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Depends on how much you think your life is worth.

Who said anything about GA, and dentists always have an assistant anyway. The anaesthetist doesn't need one. The only additional expense is the anaesthetist.

IV Sedation is a General Anaesthetic, so everyone is talking about GA. Otherwise the thread topic would be about local anaesthesia.

I'm not sure what you meant regarding the "life is worth" comment.

For GA, you aren't likely to be sitting in a dentist's chair. Likely an operating room with at least four people involved.

I think a general anaesthetic for a simple extraction may be regarded as using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Perhaps more for someone who needs a lot of work done at once.

Tying up an oral surgeon, an anaesthetist and a couple of nurses for a single extraction seems a bit much.

9 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

There really wasn't very many places offered thus far in the thread in terms of confirmed dentistry locations that offer IV sedation or similar. Just some suggestions of places to inquire of.

 

For example, I had a tooth pulled at Bangkok Dental Hospital, which really is just a large clinic, about a year back and inquired at the time about whether the extraction could be done under some form of sedation. And the answer was no, only local injection anesthetic.

 

Post #31 looks like confirmation to me. 

My question remains.

Not sure what BDC has to do with it, as apart from anything else, the general consensus is that you need a fully equipped hospital environment, replete with anaesthetist.

On 17/02/2018 at 8:58 AM, yang123 said:

Any updates on the availability of IV sedation?  

Have you exhausted the suggestions already made in the thread? If not, why would you need an "update"?