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Five: Do Dental Implants Hurt? | 49 people get the giggles). It’s used in dental surgery for its anesthetic and pain-reducing effects, and goes a long way to help relieve anxiety. iii. Moderate Sedation Moderate sedation is a type of sedation admin- istered through pill form, or (most of the time) an IV. Moderate sedation is really useful for helping patients with anxiety, fear of needles (which are used to administer a local anesthetic), or fear of the procedure itself. With moderate sedation, patients don’t even remember the needle used to distribute the local anesthetic to the surgery site in their mouths, because the sedation takes effect before the needle for the local anesthetic is administered. Also described as being in a state of “twilight,” moderate sedation renders you “half asleep,” so to speak. In other words, you are “under the surface” – your eyes are closed, you’re completely relaxed, and you won’t remember a thing after the procedure