Prof. Dr. Erdoğan Fişekçioğlu

General Anesthesia and Operating Room

In dentistry, patients with fear of the dental chair are difficult to work with because of the fear of dental treatment. Fear and anxiety can be controlled by both psychological and pharmacological (drug) ways. Good communication is essential for a successful dental treatment. However, in cases where psychological approaches and basic behavior management techniques are insufficient, it becomes very difficult to get dental treatments. In such cases, it is possible to perform dental treatments with sedation and general anesthesia methods.

Sedation is the process of reducing the patient’s relationship with the environment and consciousness as a result of suppression of the central nervous system (CNS) by using different agents and methods. The aim of sedation is to minimize the psychological and physiological reactions caused by the stress in the patient without losing consciousness and protective reflexes.

What is General Anesthesia?

General anesthesia is a method of anesthesia in which the state of consciousness is removed with the help of drugs and the whole body is under the influence of anesthesia.

Our patient groups, who are frequently administered general anesthesia and sedation:

• Children under 4 years old. (It is very difficult for this group of children to treat their teeth with persuasion.)
• Children or adults with developmental delays,
• Adult patients with severe fear.
• Surgical interventions requiring general anesthesia (bone graft, bone cyst, etc.)
• The patient group who wants to perform many surgical procedures under general anesthesia in a short time (2-3 hours), which cannot be performed in a single session with local anesthesia.
• Dental treatment of mentally handicapped children.