Techniques of Local Anaesthesia

Abstract

Dental patients have become increasingly less tolerant of a dentist who hurts them. The control of intra-and postoperative pain presents an age-old challenge: Will there ever be a perfect local anesthetic technique? Through the past 3 decades, it appears that attempts to increase success rates, especially in the mandible with its dense, infiltration-resistant cortical bone, have accelerated 1 .