General anaesthetics are used when lighter sedations—like laughing gas or IV—is inadequate. GA renders the patient unconscious and ensures the procedure is both pain-free and not remembered.
✔ Conducted at hospital.
✔ A general anaesthetic is provided, the airway will have a breathing tube in place which will need to be operated around.
✔ Increased turn-around time required.
✔ General anaesthetic will require patients to be ventilated and at times paralysed to facilitate. This will all be reversed and weaned at the end of the procedure. dental treatment.
