Sleep dentistry is usually defined as dental work done while the patient is sedated or asleep, but Deep Dental has created this webpage more to inform patients about dental products and procedures that can occur while the patient sleeps, at home, in bed. For example instead of grinding molars in sleep bruxism, teeth can be protected using night guards. That is sleep dentistry.  Another example is how Invisible braces correct misaligned teeth at night while the patient is at rest. This is Deep Dental’s definition of ‘sleep dentistry’.  

Other dentists may refer to sleep dentistry as the procedure used to calm (sedate) patients who are unusually anxious or who have abnormally high fears of dentists.   For people who avoid dentists like the plague, sedation dentistry may take away some of their anxiety. Sedation can be used for everything from invasive procedures to a simple tooth cleaning and how it’s used depends on the severity of the patient’s fear.