Office Based Sedation – Dental Patient Instructions

How Patients Should Prepare for Office Based Sedation

1.  We recommend that you give your child one spray of “Afrin” (Oxymetazoline) nasal decongestant in each side of the nose on the day before and the morning of the procedure.  This will improve your child’s ability to breath through their nose for the procedure.

2. No food or milk is allowed after midnight.

3. After midnight and until 3 hours before arrival time:

The patient may have water, clear juice without pulp, clear sport drinks (e.g. Gatorade), non-dairy Popsicles and Jell-O without fruit.

4.  All patients should take their medicines in the morning with a sip of water.  No ibuprofen (“Motrin”, “Advil”) within 2 days of the procedure. We encourage you to give your child a dose of acetaminophen (“Tylenol”) one to two hours prior to your arrival.

5.  Patients on prescribed inhalers should begin treatment 24 hours before the procedure even if they are not symptomatic.

6.  Pediatric patients may benefit from wearing a “pull-up” if they wear one while sleeping.

ANESTHESIA PARTNERS OF NORTH TEXAS, LLP is a group of physicians, board-certified in anesthesiology with sub-specialty fellowship training in pediatric anesthesia, who have been asked to provide sedation/anesthesia for you or your child.

After you have scheduled with our office, please complete the patient profile sheet and fax it to our office at 817-421-7560.

For more information visit anesthesia-partners.com or call our office at 817-907-4031