Background: Local Anaesthesia is now being accepted universally as a safe alternative to general anaesthesia for thyroid surgery. Aim: This study was carried out to compare the outcomes of patients undergoing thyroid surgery under local and general anaesthesia. Material and Methods: Hundred patients who underwent thyroid surgery for benign and malignant diseases under local and general anaesthe...

The use of local anaesthetic techniques varies with the anaesthetist's working conditions, direction of interest, and hence geographically. Thus they are mainly used in certain centres in America and Canada, and in the Scandinavian countries. Interest in, and use of, local anaesthesia has increased during the last decade. There are many reasons for this. The use of these techniques enables the ...

a 39-year-old iranian female patient who was a known case of primary cervical dystonia since 10 years ago presented to a private office for dysport injection. the patients experienced severe dysphagia after inferior alveolar nerve block which was preceded by cervical botolinum toxin injection. a possible synergistic effect of botolinum toxin and lidocaine to produce severe dysphagia is presente...

background in spite of common usage of the inferior alveolar nerve block (ianb), this method has some well-defined restrictions. objectives the purpose of the present study was to compare these two techniques for the surgical removal of impacted lower third molars. patients and methods a total of 44 similarly impacted lower third molars (22 patients with two similar teeth) were selected. in eac...

introduction: epinephrine-containing lidocaine is the most used anestheic drug in dentistry. the aim of this study was to investigate the hemodynamic changes following local infiltration of 2%lidocaine with 1:80,000 epinephrine in subjects undergoing orthognatic surgery under general anesthesia. methods: twenty five patients without any systemic disease participated. after general anesthesia, t...