Occular complications following dental local anesthesia

Occular complications following dental local anesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of appearance and the factors most commonly associated with ocular complications following dental local anesthesia, also establishing the location and type of anesthesia used. STUDY DESIGN An indexed search in the Pubmed and Compludoc databases was carried out with the keywords "oral anesthesia", "ocular", "ophthalmologic", "damage", "complications", "inje...

Complications & Concerns with Dental Local Anesthesia

Local Dental Anesthesia with Vasoconstrictor

• Few tests compared local dental anesthesia with vasoconstrictor versus no vasoconstrictor. The vasoconstrictor seems to improve the effectiveness and the duration of the anesthesia. • Anesthetic associations containing 1/200,000 adrenaline concentration seem to present the most favourable balance benefit-risks. At this concentration, the quantities of adrenaline injected during everyday denta...

The knowledge of the dentists in dental clinics in Kerman City, Iran, about ocular complications after local anesthesia

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Ocular disorder like, diplopia, mydriasis, blurred vision, ptosis, exophthalmos, and blindness (permanent or temporary) are infrequent complications of an injection of local anesthetics in mouth.The main purpose of this study was to survey the dentist’s knowledge and attitude about ocular disorders due to intra-oral anesthetics injection.<br...

Ophthalmologic complications after intraoral local anesthesia.

INTRODUCTION The first ophthalmologic complication in conjunction with a dental anesthesia was reported in 1936. The objective of the present study was a detailed analysis of case reports about that topic. MATERIAL AND METHODS After conducting a literature search in PubMed this study analyzed 108 ophthalmologic complications following intraoral local anesthesia in 65 case reports with respect...