Dr. Nagle offers many unique options for sedation that enable apprehensive or medically compromised patients to be treated comfortably and safely. While most apprehensive patients can be treated while awake and sedated via an oral sedative or Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas), several patients that are severely apprehensive about dental treatment or suffer from medial conditions require general anesthesia for treatment. Because he has full privileges at INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital, Dr. Nagle has the unique ability to perform dental treatment under general anesthesia in the safe and sterile setting of a hospital operating room with a hospital-based anesthesiologist and support staff present at all times. This allows him to treat not only nervous patients, but patients who, due to medical conditions, cannot be safely treated in the dental office.
