After his death, he was cremated and his ashes were buried alongside the grave of his wife, Betty (who died on April 15, 2001), at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. His second wife, Elizabeth Taylor, died six months and one day after Fisher, on March 23, 2011.
Medications Used for Intravenous (IV) Sedation. Today, the most popular class of medications for IV sedation in the dental office are a class of drugs known as the benzodiazepines, with midazolam (Versed) probably one the most often used.
1 With this technique, the patient is put to sleep for the duration of the procedure. 2  Patients requiring general anesthesia can be treated in the dentist's office, but more likely are treated in a hospital setting. Intravenous sedation. 2  This form of pain and anxiety control involves injecting a sedative into a vein of a patient's arm or hand. 3  This approach is usually reserved for patients undergoing extensive dental procedures or for the extremely anxious patient.