The advancement of dental local anaesthesia techniques has significantly improved pain management and patient comfort in clinical practice. Innovations such as needle‐free injections, ...

Dear Anesthesia & Pain Management Insider, A combination of the opioid class drug tramadol and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) dexketoprofen proved more effective than ibuprofen alone for ...

Tooth extractions, including ones involving infection, periodontal disease and crowding issues, are one of the most common dental procedures. An estimated 10 million wisdom teeth are extracted from ...

Around 10 to 30 percent of people have anxiety and concerns about pain with dental procedures. Anxiety can delay getting treatment and that can make the problem worse. Anesthetics have been around for ...

I've been putting up my wisdom tooth extraction for five years because I'm scared the local anesthesia's gonna kill me because maybe I'm allergic to it. Dear Patient, I can certainly understand your ...

A 64-year-old woman in Tennessee experienced tongue paralysis, which affected her ability to talk, following the administration of local infiltration anesthesia for a dental restoration procedure. The ...

‌Local anesthesia numbs a part of your body so that your doctor can stitch up a wound or take a biopsy without you feeling any pain. Unlike general anesthesia, where you are put to sleep during a ...