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If you’ve been putting off dental work — maybe for years — because of anxiety, a busy schedule, or the sheer number of visits required, restorative dentistry under general anesthesia might be the answer you didn’t know existed. You arrive in the morning, fall asleep, and wake up with your fillings, crowns, and other planned restorative work already completed.
General anesthesia allows you to be completely asleep during dental treatment. For eligible patients, restorative procedures such as fillings, crowns, bridges, and implant-related care can be completed during a single appointment without awareness of the procedure. When you wake up, your dental work is already finished according to the treatment plan discussed during your consultation.
Lacey Smiles partners with Elite Anesthesia — a mobile team of board-certified Anesthesiologists and CRNAs — to provide general anesthesia in our office. Their only role during your appointment is your safety and comfort, so the dental team can focus entirely on the procedures.
This is a meaningful distinction. Many practices offer lighter sedation — oral medication, nitrous oxide, or moderate IV sedation — where you remain awake but relaxed. General anesthesia means you are fully asleep during treatment. You won’t feel pain, you won’t hear anything that bothers you, and you won’t remember the appointment.
For someone with severe anxiety or extensive dental work to catch up on, that difference often makes the difference between getting treatment done and continuing to delay it.
Restorative procedures completed under general anesthesia at Lacey Smiles include:
• Dental fillings — cavity repair without the sounds or sensations of treatment
• Dental crowns — teeth can often be prepared and crowns placed in the same appointment when clinically appropriate
• Dental bridges — bridge preparation and placement, especially when multiple teeth are involved
• Dental implants and implant-related restorations — planned by Dr. Hodges for efficient, predictable results
• Extractions — simple or complex, including wisdom teeth
General anesthesia often allows several procedures to be completed in one visit, reducing the number of appointments needed to restore your smile.
This approach is especially worth considering if any of these are true:
• You’ve been quoted a multi-visit treatment plan and have been delaying it for months or years
• You experience dental anxiety that has kept you from regular care
• You have a strong gag reflex that makes routine procedures difficult
• You have limited time off work and can’t afford to take repeated days for separate appointments
• You have medical conditions that make sitting through long awake procedures difficult
• Past dental experiences have been traumatic and you avoid dentists entirely
Dr. Hodges reviews your medical history and treatment needs to determine whether general anesthesia is appropriate for you.
Patients often need 3 or 4 fillings, a crown, and a wisdom tooth extraction — but they’ve been quoted four separate appointments stretched over several months. That’s a lot of time off work, a lot of separate doses of local anesthetic, and a lot of opportunities to put treatment off.
Combining everything into one general-anesthesia visit means:
• You experience the procedures only once — no anticipation, no anxiety building between visits
• You take one day off instead of several
• You don’t feel any of it — no awareness, no discomfort, no memory of the procedure
• Treatment that’s been delayed for years gets done — often the biggest benefit of all
For patients who are eligible for general anesthesia, the restorative procedures planned for the appointment are typically completed before you wake up. Dr. Hodges will review what can be completed at your consultation.
Yes. General anesthesia often allows multiple restorations to be completed efficiently during a single appointment.
Yes. Patients from Thurston County, Lewis County, and surrounding Southwest Washington communities regularly choose Lacey Smiles for restorative dentistry under general anesthesia.
General anesthesia is delivered by board-certified Anesthesiologists and CRNAs from Elite Anesthesia, with continuous monitoring throughout the procedure. The single most important safety factor is who is providing the anesthesia, and Elite Anesthesia’s clinicians focus exclusively on your safety and comfort during your appointment.
General anesthesia is an additional service, so it does add to the total cost of treatment. However, many patients find the savings in time off work, the reduction in repeat appointments, and the value of finally getting needed care done outweigh the difference. We verify benefits and provide a clear written estimate before scheduling.
Ready to get your dental work done — comfortably and in one visit?
Lacey Smiles offers restorative dentistry under general anesthesia through our partnership with Elite Anesthesia. A no-pressure consultation is the best way to see whether this is right for you.
Book online: book.modento.io/lacey-smiles-dental — or call our Lacey office to schedule.
Lacey Smiles is led by Dr. John Hodges, DDS, who brings more than 30 years of experience to our team and has placed and restored over 7,500 dental implants — including 750 full-arch cases. We serve Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater, DuPont, and the surrounding South Sound with comprehensive family and implant dentistry, accept most PPO insurances, and offer in-office sedation dentistry / general anesthesia through our partnership with Elite Anesthesia so multiple procedures can be completed comfortably in a single visit.
Book online: book.modento.io/lacey-smiles-dental — or call our Lacey office to speak with our team.
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