Alex Targ, MD

Specialties

The fear of pain, the sound of drilling, and separation from parents make many children anxious when they go to a dentist’s office. Dentists often use nitrous oxide or moderately sedating drinks to ease children’s worries, so they can cooperate.

Despite this, some children still will not tolerate any dental procedures. In addition, extensive work requires children to remain calm and still for impossibly long amounts of time. For these children, I come to the dental office and provide a deeper level of sedation, eliminating all fears and ensuring that anxious children will cooperate and allow the dentist to complete dental care safely and efficiently.

Deep sedation in healthy patients is very safe when performed by a physician who is an experienced and board certified anesthesiologist. Because I specialize in the care of babies and small children, I extend this safety to the very youngest patients.

I use state of the art monitoring to ensure your child is asleep, comfortable, and safe during the whole procedure and to minimize the time your child is asleep and the time it takes to fully awaken.

For your child’s procedure, I will provide anesthesia using the highest quality equipment in a precise, safe manner. By avoiding expensive hospital facility fees, you may save thousands of dollars compared to what you would pay to have the same procedure at a hospital.

History

Established in 2002.

Clinical Faculty:

U.C., San Francisco and Stanford (2000 — 2002)

Anesthesiology Residency:

U.C., San Francisco (1993)

M.D.:

U.C., San Francisco (1989)

Undergraduate:

Biophysics and Biochemistry (B.S.); Stanford University (1984)

Meet the Business Owner

Dr. Alex Targ, MD.

Business Owner

After earning a B.S.degree in Biophysics and Biochemistry from Stanford University, I completed both medical school and four years of additional specialized anesthesiology training at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF). This program is widely regarded as one of the top anesthesia training programs in the world. I have served on the UCSF and Stanford clinical faculty and published 19 scientific articles, abstracts, and book chapters. I have twelve years of private practice experience in dental sedation and hold a Dental Board of California «General Anesthesia Permit.»