Pre Operative Instructions
  • Please bring any referral slip from your referring dentist or physician.
  • Please do not eat or drink anything for six to eight hours before your procedure.
  • Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothing.
  • Please remove any contact lenses and all jewelry prior to surgery.
  • Please bring someone to drive you home.
  • Please bring a list of medications you are taking. Also, if you have asthma please bring your inhalers. If you are taking prednisone, please bring this medication with you.
  • Patients who require antibiotic prophylaxis because of heart murmurs, artificial joints, the VP shunts, and artificial heart valves should take the appropriate antibiotic dosage one hour prior to surgery with a small sip of water.
  • Patients who are treated with heart medications, blood pressure medications, thyroid medications, and gastric reflux / ulcer medications should take these medications as prescribed without food and with small amounts of water.
  • Insulin dependent diabetic patients should take 1/2 their normal of NPH insulin and not take any regular insulin dose. We always schedule diabetic patients' appointments in the morning.
  • Diabetic patients who are controlled with Resulin should not take this medication on the day of surgery.
ALL PATIENTS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.

It is always helpful to have your medical and dental insurance information with you, as well as any required insurance forms.

Pre-Surgery Instructions
Conscious sedation is designed to enable you to undergo surgical procedures in a comfortable, relaxed, pain-free manner. In order for us to treat you safely, it is necessary to follow some very important guidelines: 
1. You must provide a responsible escort who can come with you and take you home after your appointment. We would like for your escort to remain in our office while you are being treated.
2, Do not have anything to eat or drink for 6 hours prior to your appointment
3. All smoking must be stopped 24 hours prior to your surgery. 
4. A cold or fever will require a delay of your surgery in order to ensure a safe anesthetic. If you develop a cold or fever within 3 to 4 days prior to surgery, call the office and advise us so that appropriate arrangements can be made. 
5. Do not drink any alcoholic beverages for 24 hours after your surgery.
6. Do not drive for 24 hours after your surgery.
7. Defer any responsible or complicated tasks or decision-making (do not sign any important papers) for 24 hours after surgery.
8. Wear loose comfortable clothing on the day of surgery.
9. Please leave contact lenses out on the day of surgery.
10. We also recommend that you have someone at home with you after surgery to attend to your needs.
11. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give our office a call.
Instructions for patients with hypoglycemia or diabetes will differ from those given above. Patients with medical histories that include hypoglycemia or diabetes should review their pre-operative routines with the doctor.
We will give you specific instructions, to follow after the surgery. The instructions will be oral and written, and they will be given to you and the person that accompanies you the day of surgery.

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