Painless Anesthesia: A New Approach

It is unfortunate that the methods used to control dental operative pain may themselves produce distress. It should be the aim of all caring practitioner to reduce injection sensation to minimum so as to alleviate the apprehension and fear from the patient’s mind. The fear of needle prick is a bigger reason of concern and the major cause of avoidance of dental treatment despite the detrimental effect of progressive dental caries. Various new anesthetic agents comprising of eutectic mixtures of anesthetics, anesthetic delivery devices which uses pressure and vibration and supplemental anesthesia into the osseous tissue have been introduced to lessen the pain and reduce the area to be anesthetized thus decreasing the failure rates of achieving local anesthesia and the unwanted residual effects of the anesthesia. (Singh N, Agarwal S, Bhagchandani J, Chandra P, Gaur A. Painless Anesthesia: A New Approach. www.journalofdentofacialsciences.com, 2013; 2(2): 49-55).