While many, if not most, people who are sedated via OCS get relaxed enough to fall asleep during the dental visit, the object of conscious sedation is relaxation, not sleep.

As long as your fear and anxiety are controlled, the sedative is doing its job.

Some people abuse sedative drugs to enhance the effects of opiates or use a sedative to come down from cocaine high.

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There was a very sad article in the NYTimes about the regular practice in some long-term care facilities of treating demented patients with anti-psychotic medications like Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa: The use of antipsychotic drugs to tamp down the agitation, combative behavior and outbursts of dementia patients has soared, especially in the elderly.

Sales of newer antipsychotics like Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa totaled .1 billion in 2007, up from billion in 2000, according to IMS Health, a health care information company.

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Morgan Dental Care, serving the Portland Maine areas, offers several different choices in sedation dentistry. Oral Sedation, or Oral Conscious Sedation (OCS) is a simple and effective way to handle these fears and make it possible for anxious or fearful people to get their dental care done comfortably.

And since it is done with oral medications, you just swallow a pill; you won’t have to have an injection to be sedated.

Anyone who, Oral sedatives relax you and make you feel more calm.

In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration ordered that the newer drugs carry a “black box” label warning of an increased risk of death. Ambre Morley, a spokeswoman for Janssen, the division of Johnson & Johnson that manufactures Risperdal, would not comment on the suits, but said: “As with any medication, the prescribing of a medication is up to a physician. “These antipsychotics can be overused and abused,” said Dr.

Johnny Matson, a professor of psychology at Louisiana State University.