Articaine vs Lidocaine : A review
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چکیده
The introduction of local anesthetics revolutionized the practice of dentistry. Prior to their introduction, general anesthesia was the only viable method of managing surgical pain. Among various local anesthetics available in India, lidocaine is most widely used. But lidocaine cannot provide 100% anesthesia, this leads to development of other anesthetics, one such is articaine. However, little to no evidence-based medicine exists demonstrating any superiority of articaine over other available local anesthetics. However dentists in clinical practice have claimed that articaine possesses properties that other local anesthetics don’t.
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