Sedation Dentistry
Oral sedation, nitrous, and IV options that let you drift through treatment and remember almost none of it. You stay safe, monitored, and gently looked after the whole time.
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Now Welcoming Nervous Patients
Dentistry That
Dentistry That
Finally Feels Calm
If the dentist is something you dread, you are exactly who we built this practice for. Gentle sedation, unhurried visits, and a team that treats your comfort as the whole point, right here in Elmwood.
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What We Do
Gentle Care, Built Around The Fear
General & Preventive
Unhurried checkups, plain-language exams, and tooth-colored fillings that keep the small things small. The quiet care that stops the scary visits before they start.
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Whitening, bonding, and veneers done gently and matched to your own smile, so the result reads as a healthier you, never a catalog. Nervous patients welcome, always.
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Our Practice
A Dentist For People Who Hate The Dentist
Dr. Adrienne Marsh built Stillwater Sedation Dental on one belief: that fear is a reason to be treated more gently, not less. Roughly one in three adults dreads the chair, and almost all of them have a story. We slow everything down, offer real sedation, and never rush the person in front of us.
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Three Unhurried Steps Back
01Tell Us You're Nervous
Call or book a talk-only first visit. No chair, no instruments, just a conversation about what you dread and what you need.
02Choose Your Comfort
Together we pick the right level of calm for you, from a weighted blanket and headphones to nitrous or full oral sedation.
03Wake Up Caught Up
We work gently and efficiently, then you rest while it fades. Many patients finish years of avoided care in one or two easy mornings.
A Patient Story
The Visit She Put Off For Nine Years
Rosaline had not sat in a dental chair since a bad experience in her twenties. She booked a talk-only first visit, chose oral sedation for the treatment she needed, and finished the whole plan over two calm mornings. Now she comes in for cleanings without a second thought.
Hear it in her words, then imagine your own version of that relief.
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Good Questions
The Things Nervous Patients Ask First
The questions we hear most, answered plainly. If yours is not here, a two-minute call usually is.
Yes, when it is done carefully. Every sedation patient is screened, monitored, and looked after by a trained team for the entire visit. We start with the lightest option that will keep you comfortable, and we walk you through exactly what to expect before anything begins.
It depends on the option you choose. Nitrous keeps you awake but deeply relaxed, oral sedation leaves most people drowsy and forgetful of the visit, and IV sedation brings you to the edge of sleep. You are never put fully under here. We match the level to your anxiety and the treatment.
Absolutely, and for many of our patients it is. You can stay in your street clothes, sit upright, and tell us the whole story before any chair reclines. We honor a raised hand that stops everything instantly, every single time.
From The Practice
Plain-Language Notes On Calm Care
Field notes on sedation, anxiety, and comfort, written for the people who have to work up the nerve, not for other dentists.
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