The management of broken dental needles during inferior alveolar nerve block procedures remains a critical yet infrequent complication in dental practice. This condition arises primarily due to ...

Numb lips, a bitten cheek, slurred words. For years dentists haven't had much choice about causing such temporary discomforts with a nerve block in patients needing mandibular procedures. But recent ...

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 ...

Supplemental infiltration injections with articaine are more effective than the same type of injection with lidocaine after the initial failure of an inferior alveolar nerve block, a new study shows.