Cutting Edge Dentistry – Alexandria, VA

Patients with pre-existing medical conditions require special care when undergoing anesthesia. At our Alexandria, Virginia dental office, our dentists and the team have extensive experience treating patients with various types of pre-existing medical conditions.

DR. JAMES SNYDER: And the last class of patients that we have, the people who have various types of medical reasons in addition to their dental complaints. And examples of those are people with prosthetic heart valves for example, who need injectable antibiotics in order to protect themselves. That sounds pretty innocuous but it's not so easy for them to obtain preneral antibiotics, and in some cases it requires multiple visits, seeing a physician, and then within a certain number of minutes seeing a dentist, and so on. And here it's easy for us to bundle those things together. MS. INDI CATHER: He knows exactly what's going on today, tomorrow, and he's usually doing things that dentist's and doctor's are going to do years from now. DR. ALAN GOLDEN: Everything a patient needs is right here. It's a hospital it's just not in a hospital. And you have to have all of the equipment that a hospital has in order to do anesthesia properly. I think the one thing that people hear about difficulties in offices, is because the operating surgeon, whether it be dentist or physician, is also providing the anesthesia. And that's not the case here. Someone is attending to the treatment that's indicated, and someone is attending to the anesthesia. And that's what most people don't understand in terms of the office versus the hospital. So from my point of view, this is no different than a hospital. DR. MARVIN LEVENTER: And we know that you're not going to remember anything. You know, and patients will come back. You know, their three-hour procedure, whatever it was that you did to them is like two minutes. And they say well, you know, are you going to start now? He says, well we're finished. Is that okay? Well yeah, that was great. You know, it's like are you ready to go home? Well yeah, I'm pretty awake. Can I go home now? Well sure. MS. FELICIA SAFFARINIA: Having your child sedated in a doctor's office, there are a lot of risks involved in that. And that, when I walked in here, that was one of my biggest concerns is I wanted to make sure that he had the equipment and the technology in his office that would make sure that my daughter is going to be safe when she is sedated. And that was very important to me.