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EMILE MARTIN, D.D.S.: IV sedation offers a patient with higher anxiety level than the traditional patient the ability to have dentistry done they might not ordinarily have done because of apprehension. It's basically, a lot less expensive for a patient who would be, we'll call it dental phobic for the moment, about having general dentistry done because they might have to go into a hospital environment to have that work done under a general, which will cost them a lot more than having an IV sedation done in the office.

We're talking about, there's a lot of sedation out there today. People are using oral sedation. This is different. We're using intravenous line to administer the drugs and we have a lot of control with that. If the patient needs a little bit more of the sedation drug, we're able to give it to them immediately versus having to give them a pill when we don't know how long it's going to take the pill to go through.

Basically, it allows a patient to come in, not have to go to a hospital environment or an outpatient environment in the hospital and have their dentistry done. And there are not very many people who provide that care in a general dentistry format and even fewer in a hospital. We're on two hospital staffs here. I probably go to the hospital once a year to do a case that we can't do with IV sedation so it has offered us the opportunity to expand for patients who have major apprehensions or just don't want to deal with it if their having third molar extractions done, the ability to have IV sedation without the general.