Objectives: Injury of lingual nerve is a rare complication general anesthesia. The causes injury following anesthesia are multifactorial; possible mechanisms may include difficult laryngoscopy, prolonged anterior mandibular displacement, improper placement the oropharyngeal airway, macroglossia and tongue compression. Case Report: A case atypical neuralgia that was associated with orotracheal i...

An inferior alveolar nerve with multiple roots is a rare variation encountered during dissection of cadavers. We present one such variation found in the right infratemporal fossa of an adult male cadaver. The nerve had three roots, one each from the posterior division of the mandibular nerve, auriculotemporal nerve and lingual nerve. The second part of the maxillary artery was encircled by the ...

background and aims. inferior alveolar nerve block injection is one of the common intra oral anesthetic techniques, with a failure rate of 15-20%. the aim of this study was to evaluate the position of the lingula as an index for this injection. materials and methods. thirty eight panoramic radiographs of 7–11 year old patients were analyzed and the distance between the lingula index and occlusa...

conclusions the volume of the injected anesthetic accelerated the onset of sensory and motor block without affecting the rate of success in our patients. results the onset of sensory and motor block was significantly shorter in the 1.3% lidocaine group than in the 2% lidocaine group (p ≤ 0.05). the success rate of sensory and motor block was not different. the quality (completeness) of sensory ...