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| Comfort During Procedure |  If patients keep on feeling considerable distress, even after having these discussions with the dentists, they should know that there are therapeutic methods that can be used and for which they might be candidates. Such methods include:
 Oral sedation involves taking a sedative pill or liquid before the procedure. This measure can help anxious patients a good deal – it will make the treatment experience much less stressful.
Nitrous oxide analgesia, so called "laughing gas," can be inhaled along with oxygen. It makes patients feel less anxious and more comfortable.
Intravenous sedation can be prescribed by a specially trained and certified dental team or dental anesthesiologist. During the action of this medicine, patients are not asleep and they can still respond, although they will not feel or remember anything. This method works very well in creating a pleasant experience for many anxious patients and is a good anesthetic method for more lengthy dental procedures.
Hospital dentistry is conducted in an environment where a variety of anesthetic methods are available and can be used under the safest medical conditions. General anesthetic and intravenous sedation can both be used in the hospital setting.
In actual fact, these sedative techniques and medicines may also be useful if particularly lengthy root canal treatment procedures are necessary in specific situations.
With all of the advancements in pharmaceuticals and in their delivery, there should be no need for any patient to delay endodontics treatment because of fear that the treatment will be painful.
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