Local Anaesthesia: Risks and Controversies

From Volume 36, Issue 5, June 2009 | Pages 278-283

Authors

John G Meechan

BDS, PhD, FDS RCS(Eng), FDS RCS(Ed), FDS RCPS

Senior Lecturer, School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle uponTyne, NE2 4BW, UK

Articles by John G Meechan

Abstract

This paper describes the complications that can occur as the result of the intra-oral injection of local anaesthetics. It considers important localized and systemic complications and describes strategies to limit the occurrence of such problems.

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