Gas and air 5 year old for dental treatment

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Hi, have been referred to NHS dentist for my DC dental treatment (cavities), and the dentist said they'd do gas and air. Has anyone's DC have had this at this (or any) age. Please share your experiences 🙏

Mine went to a special clinic for this. They gave 3 appointments to get the job done, first appointment was seeing the dentist/room/sitting in the chair/putting the nose mask on. In the end he was so relaxed that he didn’t need the gas as he didn’t like it, but the job got done.

Was that in London @DustyLee123

This didn’t work for us. The dentist however had a terrible manner, wouldn’t let us hold our child’s hand to help calm her so she freaked out and had to be referred for a GA.

My dc tried this when older.l (teen) They state you can’t get it done if you have a cold and nose is blocked. He didn’t have a cold but it hadn’t occurred to me his nose was blocked cos of hayfever. He couldn’t sufficiently breathe through nose. The dentist seemed panicky about this saying if he can’t breathe through nose then the gas will come out in the room instead and affect everyone.?

he decided to try just with local anesthetic injection and preferred this but he was older.

so not much experience from us just make sure nose is not blocked on the day

My DC had an infected tooth removed at NHS dentist with an injection (4 yo). The first appt as a PP said was basically looking around. This seemed really important. For us it was an easy enough extraction since the tooth had died due to being bumped previously. Incentives certainly helped DC (those kids magazines 🙈). Good luck!

Autistic 7yo had it for minor dental work at an NHS special care dental clinic in S.London. It was bloody marvellous.

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My autistic 15 year old has just been referred. We've had one appointment where they've agreed what's going to happen. We're waiting for the appointment to have the teeth removed now.