{"id":797,"date":"2015-08-20T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leslatnerdds.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2015-08-27T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:05:51","slug":"sedation-dentist-los-angeles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leslatnerdds.com\/blog\/sedation-dentist-los-angeles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Les Latner, Sedation Dentist in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"woman](\"https:\/\/www.leslatnerdds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ThinkstockPhotos-177272518-300x200.jpg\")
<\/a>I\u2019ve worked on a lot of teeth over the past thirty-plus years.Yes, I\u2019ve seen (literally) millions of them, and dealt with a number of oral problems. I\u2019ve helped care for the mouths of everyone from linebackers on the UCLA Bruins football team<\/a> to your neighborhood paper boy. In this process, I\u2019ve learned that we all have a few things in common. We all feel the desire for healthy teeth and a beautiful smile. We also all share a fear of the dentist.\r\n\r\n\r\nAs your dentist, I don\u2019t want to make you feel any pain whatsoever–trust me. When a patient is a tight bundle of nerves and anxiety before an exam or procedure, it just makes my job more difficult, not to mention making a relatively painless process excruciating for the patient. But I totally understand the fear of the dentist–I don\u2019t particularly like having sharp, pokey things near my teeth, either.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, too often adults let their dental anxieties keep them from going to the dentist. They ignore small pain until it becomes unbearable–just increasing the scope of the dental treatment they\u2019ll need. This is a bad cycle.\r\n\r\nIf your fear of the dentist is getting in the way of your oral health, I have some good news. Great advancements are being made in increasing the comfort of dental care, meaning that these days, the chances that you\u2019ll actually experience the amount of pain you\u2019re imagining at the dentist are highly unlikely. Read on to learn more about just one option we offer at our Los Angeles dental office: oral sedation dentistry.\r\n![\"woman](\"https:\/\/www.leslatnerdds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ThinkstockPhotos-177272518.jpg\")
<\/a>I\u2019ve worked on a lot of teeth over the past thirty-plus years.Yes, I\u2019ve seen (literally) millions of them, and dealt with a number of oral problems. I\u2019ve helped care for the mouths of everyone from