Anyone been referred to hospital for dental treatment?

What is your questio: Are you asking who gets referred to hospital for dentistry ? For routine dental tatment no. If it is a life threatening abscess, infection that needs immediate IV antibiotics to bring infection and swelling down, then yes. Hospital only if the situation is life threatening and need to be near equipment for quick response to infection and possible closing of airways due to infection and swelling.

Sort of: Sometimes dental treatment is carried out in a hospital operating room on specific patients who can't cooperate. I see you are in san francisco. They have an excellent hospital dentistry program at ucsf.

Yes: We have on rare occasion taken a patient to a hospital setting for dental care. Most of the time we do our best to treat a patient at our offices, as it can feel more comforting for them. We have state of the art surgical microscopes and equipment, as well as specialists in our office. Also, we are a sedation rated facility and because of that we can deliver IV sedation... This may be the key.

Yes: Typically when there are severe medical issues or behavioral issues that can not be controlled during a normal dental office visit.

Yes: Hospital dentistry is usually reserved for medically compromised patients or children who require dentistry asleep. In canada the prevalence of hospital dentistry may be decreasing somewhat as medical anesthesiologists are increasingly working with dentists and seeing patients in an outpatient basis. Severe abscesses/dental infections are often seen in the hospital as well.

Yes: The types of patients that are referred to the hospital are usually medically compromised, mentally challenged or have a related life threatening issue like a severe tooth abscess.