Introduction:

Conscious sedation is a technique not only applied to pediatric patients but also to adults and thisis determined by phobia, anxiety, disability, stress due to dental consultation and different dental treatments.

Material and methods:

Various data bases were used, such as PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, to include all the clinical investigations that were published in the area of misconduct in dental practice and treatment by conscious sedation with its different drugs applied.

Results:

In reference to the different articles obtained in the systematic search referred to clinical, experimental studies, focused on conscious sedation in the dental consultation, and through the review of articles, ten articles have been obtained in which different drugs were used to perform conscious sedation.

Conclusions:

The most accepted route of drug administration to carry out conscious sedation is the oral route, there are a number of pharmacological combinations to be able to carry it out.

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