What is it about?
The use of high concentration of local anaesthsia especilly in inflammed area may cause neurotoxcity or nerve damage that may cause trigeminal neuralgia.
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Why is it important?
We should as a dentists to avoid use high concetration of local anaesthesia such as 4% or inject multiple carpules of it in the infected area of the jaws to avoid the nerve damage.
Perspectives
We spend alot of time to reach this fact about one of the painful and idiopathic disease, so we hop from them to help us and prevent the misuse of the local anaestgesia in dental practice.
Lecturer in dental school Ali Abd Al-Hur Al-Ibrahemy
University of Karbala
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This page is a summary of: The Correlation between Trigeminal Neuralgia and Local Anesthetics Neurotoxicity Associated with Acute Inflammation: A Cross-sectional Study, The Open Dentistry Journal, September 2023, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/18742106-v17-230809-2022-101.
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