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  2. Dental anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Intraligamentary or periodontal ligament anaesthesia is a technique used primarily for endodontic treatment and to supplement inferior dental blocks where they may have failed. This technique involves 'the deposition of at least 0.2ml of local anaesthetic solution for each root of the tooth' [ 10 ] diffusing into the marrow spaces surrounding ...

  3. Procaine - Wikipedia

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    It is most commonly used in dental procedures to numb the area around a tooth [1] and is also used to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain or Novocaine, in some regions, procaine is referred to generically as novocaine. It acts mainly as a sodium channel blocker. [2]

  4. List of local anesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Novocain, borocaine (procaine borate), ethocaine 1904 (Alfred Einhorn) 1905 (Heinrich Braun) procainamide: proparacaine: proxymetacaine propoxycaine [16] Pyrrocaine [17] quinisocaine dimethisoquin [18] ropivacaine: Naropin 1957 (Ekenstam) 1997 trimecaine: Mesdicain, Mesocain, Mesokain tetracaine: amethocaine, Dicaine, Pontocaine 1928 (O. Eisleb ...

  5. Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage ...

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    The company had previously said the standards it would use to determine how long a surgery should last were consistent with industry standards and formulas set by the American Society of ...

  6. Topical anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    In dentistry, topical anesthetics are used to numb oral tissue before administering a dental local anesthetic due to the entry of the needle into the soft tissues of the oral cavity. [3] Dental anesthetic gels are sometimes flavored to make usage more tolerable for patients, especially in pediatric dentistry.

  7. Inferior alveolar nerve anaesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Inferior alveolar nerve block (abbreviated to IANB, and also termed inferior alveolar nerve anesthesia or inferior dental block) is a nerve block technique which induces anesthesia (numbness) in the areas of the mouth and face innervated by one of the inferior alveolar nerves which are paired on the left and right side.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Treatment facilities were designed for discipline. Something else has been lost with the institutionalization of the 12 steps over the years: Bill Wilson’s openness to medical intervention. From the start, Wilson intended AA to work with, not against or instead of, the latest and best medical science to treat addiction.

  9. Occupational hazards in dentistry - Wikipedia

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    [20] [22] About 84.9% of dental practitioners among those attending a health screening program in the annual ADA session in San Francisco, California, were found to restore teeth with 100–200 dental amalgam restorations in a week, and about 4.2% did a minimum of 50 dental amalgam fillings in a week. [22]