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Hospital Services

The use of general anesthesia for dental care in children is something necessary to provide safe, efficient, and effective care. Depending on the patient, this will be done in ambulatory care setting or inpatient hospital setting(Shady Grove Adventist Hospital). Patients for whom general anesthesia has been the management technique of choice include the following:

• Patients with certain physical, mental, or medically compromising conditions
• Patients with dental restorative or surgical needs for whom local anesthesia is ineffective because of acute infection, anatomic variations, or allergy
• The extremely uncooperative, fearful, anxious, physically resistant, or uncommunicative child or adolescent with substantial dental needs for whom there is no expectation that the behavior will soon improve
• Patients who have sustained extensive orofacial and/ or dental trauma
• Patients with immediate comprehensive oral or dental need who otherwise would not receive comprehensive dental care
• Patients requiring dental care for whom the use of general anesthesia may protect the developing psyche and/or reduce medical risks

Patients for whom general anesthesia is usually contraindicated include those with a medical contraindication to general anesthesia and healthy and cooperative patients with minimal dental needs.

Dr.Echandy sees patients at Shady Grove Adventist hospital.

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Phone: 240-826-6000
TTY#: 240-826-6405
Address: 9901 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850