Introduction: Surgical removal of the mandibular third molar has its own set complications. The impacted teeth are in proximity to Inferior Alveolar Nerve (IAN), Buccal Nerve, and Lingual (LN). Therefore, each these nerves is always at risk injury during extraction. Objectives: This study was evaluate anatomical factors nerve after surgical extraction molars patients visiting department oral ma...

BACKGROUND The most common technique to anesthetize mandibular primary teeth is inferior alveolar (I.A) nerve block injection which induces a relatively sustained anesthesia and in turn may potentially traumatize soft-tissues. Therefore, the need of having an alternative technique of anesthesia with a shorter term but the same efficacy is reasonable. The aim of this study was a comparison of th...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to determine the possible differences in deflection between two needles of same length and external gauge but with different internal gauges during truncal block of the inferior alveolar nerve. The initial working hypothesis was that greater deflection may be expected with larger internal gauge needles. STUDY DESIGN Four clinicians subjected 346 patient...

The mental foramen is located in a position where certain dental procedures may cause inadvertent damage to the nerve and lead disorders of sensory functions such as altered sensa¬tion, complete numbness, neuropathic pain, which are uncommon but severe treatment complications with significant medico-legal implications. Hence thorough knowledge its anatomical relation surrounding structures crit...

Whenever endodontic therapy is performed on mandibular posterior teeth, damage to the inferior alveolar nerve or any of its branches is possible. Acute periapical infection in mandibular posterior teeth may also sometimes disturb the normal functioning of the inferior alveolar nerve. The most common clinical manifestation of these insults is the paresthesia of the inferior alveolar nerve or men...