Anesthesia for children's dental fillings

Dental caries is a common dental disease among children nowadays. This is because children like to eat snacks, especially high-sugar foods, and often do not brush their teeth, which makes their teeth prone to disease. When dental caries develops to a certain extent, surgery is the only option. However, the children are still young and the surgery requires anesthesia. Many parents worry that it will affect their children's intelligence. This article discusses this issue, and the editor will explain it in detail below.

Anesthesia for children's dental fillings

Many parents worry that general anesthesia is unsafe, but this is not the case. At present, anesthesia technology is very mature and safety issues can be protected to the greatest extent. However, before the operation, the anesthesiologist and parents should discuss the anesthesia risks, possible accidents, and precautions before and after the operation.

Some people say that general anesthesia will affect children's intelligence, but this is actually unfounded. Current research suggests that dental treatment under general anesthesia does not have adverse effects on children's intelligence. The teeth that can be preserved under general anesthesia are actually similar to those under local anesthesia. The method of general anesthesia for treating teeth is the same as that for outpatient treatment. For teeth with severe damage to tooth tissue and root apex, general anesthesia will not improve the efficacy and will not preserve them.

Some children will become restless when recovering from anesthesia, and experience wound pain, minor bleeding, sore throat, and bite discomfort after surgery. These are normal phenomena and will gradually disappear with proper care and adaptation. This is a common phenomenon after surgery, even under local anesthesia

Please note: children with a large number of teeth to be extracted should eat liquid or semi-liquid diet for three days and soft food for one week. Children with a small number of teeth to be extracted or no teeth to be extracted should eat liquid diet on the day of surgery and only eat soft food for one week after surgery. In addition, routine check-ups are conducted weekly, and regularly after one month, three months, six months, one year, and every six months thereafter.

Do it once.