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I have never had nitrous oxide. Should I be able to legally and confidentially carry during and after visiting the dentist getting my wisdom teeth pulled?

Are you chatty when you drink?
........... Just kidding.. .


Serious answer.....
Carrying while under the influence of an intoxicating substance (nitrous) is a big No-No.
Would you drive a car while on nitrous?

I would leave it home, or at minimum in a locked case in a locked car.

IMO, IANAL, YMMV.

I wouldn't.

If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

rotor wrote:If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

no restriction against driving = carry away.

jmra wrote:

rotor wrote:If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

no restriction against driving = carry away.

Assuming that the previous two posts are accurate reflections of how long nitrous stays in your system, I'd agree, with one caveat: I'd NOT have my firearm on me or within my reach while undergoing the procedure. Liability is too high.

Vol Texan wrote:

jmra wrote:

rotor wrote:If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

no restriction against driving = carry away.

Assuming that the previous two posts are accurate reflections of how long nitrous stays in your system, I'd agree, with one caveat: I'd NOT have my firearm on me or within my reach while undergoing the procedure. Liability is too high.

Nor would I think you would be driving a car during the procedure.

Personally I am not going to lie on the table armed when I am getting my wisdom teeth pulled. After I got back to my car I would rearm myself.

rotor wrote:If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

One of the reasons that nitrous oxide (N2o) was one of the first pain-killers carried on paramedic ambulances, when such units were first getting established and medical control protocols were being fined and refined was that taking away the nitrous mask very quickly stopped the analgesic effect -it was out of the system in less than 30 seconds. Thus came the first N2o protocol I ever worked under: let the pstient hold the nitrous mask upnto himself. If he gets too far under, he loses the ability to hold the mask over his face and the gas is no longer being delivered (it was on a negative-pressure demand valve meaning the patient had to actively breath in the gas and it was that negative pressure that opened the demand valve).

Later, since many ambulances had so many leaks in their Nitronox units that there was often little of the analgesic available for patients, the EMS community transitioned to narcotic-based analgesics like MS (morphine sulfate).

Ahem!

But, back to the OP: in all the times I've had N2o at the dentist, it was given in conjunction with a local anesthetic at the affected tooth, and usually an Rx of Talwin or Vicodin to be used after the local anesthetic wears off.

As stated, N20 has a very, very, very short half life (duration of effect). They'll more than likely switch you to straight O2 when you're done and you'll be fine afterwards. Whether or not you carry while in the chair, is up to you. Driving is fine, though.

I am a Registered Hygienist. The Nitrous is very temporary. While you are on the machine, you would be considered impaired but when the dentist or hygienist is finished, you have pure oxygen sent though the lines for a short period to clear the nitrous from your lungs. You will be unaffected and completely "normal" before you are even out of the chair. Certainly by the time you pay your bill and leave. Just leave the gun in your car while you are at the appt. It's ok to drive armed afterward.

This is for nitrous only. If you are instructed to take any kind of pain or anxiety pill before your appt, then leave the gun at home.

TexasGal wrote:This is for nitrous only. If you are instructed to take any kind of pain or anxiety pill before your appt, then leave the gun at home.

This falls in line with "if you are ok to drive you can carry". If you are taking pills before the appt, not only do you want to leave the gun at home, you want someone you drive you to the appt.

I am not sure what they will be doing today. It is a smaller dentist and they offered me an earlier appointment with the charges of having work done today. I don't think they will offer to do much inhibiting things to me due the fact I will have my daughter. However, the wife may meet up with us later or I would just anything major done later. I avoid any kind of medical or dental situations as much as possible. Considering my whole family is in the medical field and my wife is in nursing school, I usually get forced into these situations.

As far as if I am a chatty drunk. Is there anyone that isnt? lol Not so much anymore, but at one point it would not be strange thing to hear me say "Hold my beer and watch this" Despite there being about 10 of around think there was ever a force of reason? nope lol

rotor wrote:If all you had was nitrous it is out of your system almost immediately. Sometimes they give you something else while you are under and that may last awhile. Did they say it was ok to drive? If so you should be able to carry.

After the procedure is finished, the dentist infuses oxygen to purge your system from Nitrous Oxide. By time you are ready to leave and pay your bill it should all be out of your system.

n5wd wrote:

But, back to the OP: in all the times I've had N2o at the dentist, it was given in conjunction with a local anesthetic at the affected tooth, and usually an Rx of Talwin or Vicodin to be used after the local anesthetic wears off.

^ this is what happened with both of my teens when they had their wisdom teeth out....