Needle breakage during administration of an inferior alveolar nerve block is a rare event in modern dental practice and this reduction is largely due to single-use disposable needles made of ...

Buccal infiltration with 4% articaine may achieve a comparable anesthetic effect to inferior alveolar nerve block with 2% lidocaine when performing pulp therapy in kids' lower jaw molars, reports a ...

Dentists may inadvertently destroy incipient third molars when they administer alveolar nerve blocks in young children, a new study shows. Jerry Swee, MS, DMD, a clinical instructor from the ...

To explore the anesthetic success of inferior alveolar nerve blocks with 2% lidocaine in mandibular molars with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis after doses of prednisolone, dexamethasone, or ...

They randomly assigned 125 emergency patients with irreversible pulpits to receive nerve blocks of either 2% lidocaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine or 4% articaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine.