Anyone with experience of recovery from dental extractions and general anaesthetic in adults??
We have a 31yr old severely autistic son who has refused dental treatment for years despite 50 hours+ of "desensitisation" from our local psychologist team and multiple attempts to cajole/persuade him to enter the hospital supported by our "multi-disciplinary team" over the past 7 years.
We finally (after presenting him as an emergency 12 months ago) have a date booked for "the procedure".
"The procedure" involves pre-med in the home environment supervised by an anaesthetist, car trip to hospital, at least 6 tooth extractions including 4 wisdom teeth, a trip to the recovery ward and a blue-light ambulance trip home followed by some form of short-term monitoring/nursing care.
All of this has to be done without giving "the patient" any advance warning and so is being "bought off" by the Court of Protection.
We are , of course, expecting severe recovery problems, his reaction is likely to be extreme but he desperately needs the treatment.
Does anyone out there have experience of handling a case like this? What strategies should we use? What help should we expect from NHS and Social services? etc ?
Thanks for any helpful suggestions.
PT and AT
