Efficacy of Extra-Oral Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block in Mandibular Teeth Extraction

Anesthetic Efficacy of Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block: Conventional versus Akinosi Technique

Objective: Anesthetic techniques like the Akinosi technique were introduced to surmount the problems of the conventional inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) technique. This study aimed to compare the local anesthetic efficacy of IANB via the conventional and Akinosi techniques in patients presenting to the Maxillofacial Surgery Department of School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University. Me...

Articaine (4%) Buccal Infiltration versus Lidocaine (2%) Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block for Mandibular Teeth Extraction in Patients on Warfarin Treatment

Background: Although lidocaine inferior alveolar nerve block is a common dental injection in case of managing mandibular teeth, it may not be the first choice in specific situations. Patients on warfarin therapy are at high risk of bleeding during dental procedures. In this study we aimed to investigate and compare the efficacy of articaine buccal infiltration in mandibular teeth extraction wit...

Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block Revisited.

A Comparison of 2% Lidocaine and Epinephrine with 3% Mepivacaine in Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block

The purpose of this study was evaluation of anesthesia success rate of 3% mepivacaine compared with 2% lidocaine 1/80000 epinephrine in inferior alveolar nerve block in thirty voluntary students. All of the subjects were healthy and had not received any medicament. They pariticipated for two appointments and each time randomly received an inferior alveolar nerve injection with one of the anesth...

Prediction of inferior alveolar nerve injury in complicated mandibular wisdom teeth extractions: a new classification system

Purpose: To introduce and validate a new classification system for the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) injury based on the proximity and positional relation between the tooth root and the inferior alveolar canal (IAC). Methods: In this retrospective study, consecutive patients, who underwent piezosurgery extractions of complicated impacted mandibular third molars from March to November 2014, were...