Of course sedation is dangerous. Sedation and nitrous both have dangers but so does avoiding dental work because of patient anxiety. So does a patient moving during the procedure due to anxiety or being uncooperate. Its all a cost benefit analysis, like everything in medicine, and each patient and case is different. Nitrous is fairly safe and very effective and should probably be suggested more as an alternative to sedation.<p>You could open up my abdomen and take out my kidney while I was awake and it would not bother me as long as I didn&#x27;t feel it. Go near my mouth or eyes though and I have unbearable anxiety. I&#x27;d let all my teeth rot out of my face before undergoing tooth extraction awake, its that bad.<p>This is a fairly common fear.<p>Even without anxiety my oral surgeon strongly recommended at least nitrous due to the procedure being performed.<p>Your procedure was simple enough for a dentist to perform, and didn&#x27;t require an oral surgeon, so pretty simple.