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Dental trismus is defined by difficulty in opening the jaw. It is a temporary condition that usually lasts no more than two weeks. Dental trismus is caused by an injury to the masticatory muscles, such as opening the jaw for an extended period of time or having a needle pass through a muscle.
Tetanus (from Ancient Greek τέτανος 'tension, stretched, rigid'), also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani and characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body.
Intraosseous anaesthetic injection involves the deposition of anaesthetic solution directly into the cancellous alveolar bone adjacent to the apex of the root of the tooth to be anaesthetised through a small hole. Additionally, more complex dental procedures like surgery or endodontic therapy (like root canals) might make use of it.
A Med-E-Jet vaccination gun from 1980. A jet injector, also known as a jet gun injector, air gun, or pneumatic injector, is a medical instrument that uses a high-pressure jet of liquid medication to penetrate the skin and deliver medication under the skin without a needle.
Denzel Washington's alma mater is throwing it back almost 50 years in honor of his latest role.. As Washington's new movie Gladiator II hit theaters over the weekend, his former college, Fordham ...
The early morning killing of a top health insurance executive in midtown Manhattan Wednesday has unleashed a flurry of rage and frustration from social media users over denials of their medical ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Alain J.P. Belda joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -53.5 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Lockjaw, a 2013 EP by Flume and Chet Faker "Lockjaw" (song), a 2016 song by American hip hop artist French Montana and Kodak Black "Lockjaw", a track which features American rapper Trunks and appears on the King Geedorah album Take Me to Your Leader "Lockjaw", a track from the album Mack Daddy by Sir Mix-a-Lot