World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ADVANCES IN LOCAL ANAESTHESIA

Dr. Sneha S. Puri*

ABSTRACT

Local anesthetic solutions have been utilized in clinical dentistry to alleviate or eliminate pain associated with invasive procedures as early as the 19th century. Many patients are apprehensive about receiving local anaesthesia through syringe-needle injection. The main drawbacks associated with it are anxiety, fear of needle, long period of numbness of tissues such as tongue, lips, along with it being painful and uncomfortable to the patient, which cause a reduction in compliance with the SRP. So recently new novel anesthetic techniques have been developed which includes transmucosal patch, intrapocket anesthesia, intraligamentary, TENS and use of nanorobots to achieve successful topical anesthesia.

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