What You Should Know About Nitrous Oxide Sedation

If you’re like many Americans, Saturday morning cartoons might have taught you much of what you know about dental sedation. While these animated shorts might be funny, they are usually about as factual about laughing gas as they are about farm animals talking and wearing clothes while surviving massive head injuries. Laughing gas, properly known as nitrous oxide, is perfectly safe when administered under medical supervision. Here are a few facts to set the record straight about this widely understood form of medicine.