What Is The Price Of Sleep Dentistry Today?

What Is the Cost of Sleep Dentistry Today?

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What Is the Cost of Sleep Dentistry Today?

My name is Dr Warren Antonoff. I’m the Principal Dentist of Lifestyle Smiles. I saw a new patient Rebecca from Bentleigh East yesterday. Because she had a bad experience with a dentist many years ago, she hasn’t been to a dentist for a very long time, like over 10 years… and as a result, her condition is very bad. As part of her overall treatment, we are looking at sleep dentistry, also known as sedation dentistry, to help her with her dental fear. And she asked me what is the cost of sleep dentistry? So I thought I’ll make this video sharing with you what I shared with her, just in case you are in a similar situation.

So first of all, there are many different ways to manage anxious patients, and you may or may not required to be fully put to sleep. The easiest way sometimes is to provide a patient with a muscle relaxant or an anti-anxiety medication to take approximately 60 minutes before the treatment, very often that itself is sufficient to calm the patient, so that they can sit through the appointment. It’s easy, quick, and here at Lifestyle Smile, we do not charge the patient for providing that level of care. The reason why I encourage most patients to try this is because sleep dentistry can be expensive, and you don’t want to do this every time you go in to see the dentist. And probably more importantly, sleep dentistry doesn’t CURE… your dental fear, the last thing we want is for you to spend a lot of money getting your teeth fixed… and then disappear for another 10-20 years… that would be major disaster.

Another very good option is happy gas, at a very small fee, typically a few hundred dollars, happy gas will allow you to be able to sit through your dental appointment and have dentistry done. It’s not for everyone and for the extreme phobic it probably won’t work, but it is a good alternative.

Now if you a extremely phobic, or you have alot of extensive dental work to be done that may not be suitable if you’re awake, then we may need to book in an anesthetist or a dental sedationist to provide a deeper level of intra venous sedation. For this level of treatment, it typically would cost anywhere between $500 to $800 an hour, on top of your dental cost.

In addition, you can also do sleep dentistry at your local hospital, under General Anaesthetic. However, in Australia general dentists don’t usually have that type of access. But if you see a dental surgeon, they may have access to a hospital setting or general anesthetic setting, and Medicare can cover some of those costs.

So hopefully that answers some of the questions for the cost for sleep dentistry. So if you have dental fear, and is considering sleep dentistry as part of the procedure, we would love to help. Simply give us a call, direct message us on social media, or complete the enquiry form on our website. See you in the next video.

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