The mandible exhibits complex anatomical variations that are critical for successful surgical interventions and local anaesthetic procedures. The mandibular ramus houses several key landmarks – ...

October 6, 2011 — The inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) is often ineffective, and too few dentists are well versed in alternative approaches to anesthesia in the mandible, leading experts write in ...

Achieving complete anesthesia of a patient's tooth that needs treatment when everything else in the mouth seems numb is the most common difficulty clinicians face, according to a presenter at the ...

While a robust armamentarium is available for dentists to effectively administer anesthesia, the key to success is finding the right balance in the use of its tools and techniques, according to a ...

June 22, 2011 — Articaine works better than lidocaine for infiltrations, but the evidence for superiority in mandibular blocks is still weak, researchers reported in the May issue of the Journal of ...

When and how procedural anesthesia and postoperative pain blocks are administered often play a role in procedure reimbursements for care. There are various POP blocks available for anesthesiologists ...

Breast cancer patients who received the combination of a nerve block with general anesthesia for their breast cancer surgery had less cancer recurrence and were three times less likely to die than ...

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