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The advancement of dental local anaesthesia techniques has significantly improved pain management and patient comfort in clinical practice. Innovations such as needle‐free injections, ...

Getting out of the dentist's office in comfort used to be as hard to do as pulling teeth. Any significant dental work used to mean enduring a "block," or another of those medieval gum-numbing ...

UAB Department of Neurosurgery PGY-6 Resident James Mooney, M.D., is first author on a recent paper published in the North American Spine Society Journal (NASSJ) titled "Microendoscopic lumbar ...

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 ...

A new "proliposomal" preparation of the local anesthetic drug ropivacaine may provide a valuable new option for pain relief in some clinical situations, with key advantages over other types of ...

Local anesthesia refers to using a drug called an anesthetic to temporarily numb a small area of your body. Your doctor might use a local anesthetic before doing a minor procedure, such as a skin ...

(Reuters Health) - Briefly applying an ice cube to the skin could diminish the pain associated with local anesthetic injections, a small study suggests. Local anesthetics are typically used to reduce ...

‌Local anesthesia numbs a part of your body so that your doctor can stitch up a wound or take a biopsy without you feeling any pain. Unlike general anesthesia, where you are put to sleep during a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A microprocessor-controlled delivery system significantly reduced the pain associated with local anesthetic ...

Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...