Dr. Adams and Dr. Hurng have asked Edwin Lee, M.D. to help take care of your child in the office with anesthesia. Dr. Lee’s goal is to provide your child with the safest level of medical care in the comfort and convenience of your pediatric dentist’s office.

Office-based anesthesia is a unique subspecialty in the field of anesthesiology. The State of California, the California Medical Board, and the California Board of Dental Examiners carefully regulate the qualifications of anesthesiologists in the dental office setting as well as the routine and emergency equipment that must be available on-site. Dr. Lee uses the same monitors that are used in hospital operating rooms and he will be right next to your child for the entire procedure. Dr. Lee has provided anesthesia for pediatric patients for more than 30 years and most of his current patients are children.

Dr. Lee has been in private practice since 1987. He obtained his B.A. from UCLA, M.D. from UC San Diego, and completed his medical internship at the University of Hawaii and anesthesiology residency at UC Irvine. In medical school, he was a UC Regents Scholar (one of six in a class of 128). During residency, Dr. Lee was one of three doctors
selected (from more than 200 residents in all specialties) for membership in the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha (medical equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa). He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and has extensive hospital-based experience (28 years) in pediatric, cardiac (open heart procedures), thoracic, vascular, trauma, neurosurgical, obstetric, and general anesthesia. Years of training and experience taking care of critically-ill patients in a hospital setting (e.g., anesthesia for brain surgery, massive blood replacement in trauma patients, inserting monitoring lines into the heart) have been essential in developing the knowledge, skills, and judgment required to manage any medical challenges that might arise in a dental office.