Local Anaesthetics: Dentistry’s Most Important Drugs
Stanley F. Malamed, DDS
Local anaesthesia forms the backbone of pain control techniques in contemporary dental practice. An important area of research has been the development of new drugs, both local anesthetics, such as articaine, as well as drugs to reverse soft-tissue anaesthesia — phentolamine mesylate, buffered local anesthetics — producing a more rapid onset, more comfortable injection and more profound anaesthesia. The session will conclude with in-depth review of the development of articaine, the early “controversy” regarding four per cent local anesthetics (articaine) and paresthesia following “mandibular” nerve block, and the significant clinical advantages of articaine as compared to other dental local anesthetics. These and other areas of current research into improving pain control will be discussed. Learning Objectives: • Name the five local anesthetics currently used in dentistry • Describe buffering and its effect on dental local anesthetics • Discuss the efficacy of articaine by mandibular and maxillary buccal infiltration
Course Code:
T039FL
Room: Time:
718B – South Building 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Type:
Lecture
Audience: Dentist; Dental Hygienist RCDSO QA Program: Category 2 (3 CE Credits) Fee + HST: Ticketed Free
Dr. Stanley F. Malamed is a dentist anesthesiologist and Emeritus professor of Dentistry at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, in Los Angeles.
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