New Gadgets in Local Anesthesia: A review

Abstract

Local pain management is the most critical aspect of patient care in dentistry. When efforts to achieve local anesthesia are unsuccessful, the resulting stress for both the patient and practitioner can be significant. It is imperative on our part to update our knowledge and skills in using newer alternatives in pain control and management and ways of administering them to increase the comfort level of our patients and resolve the clichéd paradigm of " Pain and Dentistry are inseparable " . The improvements in techniques for local anesthesia are probably the most significant advances that have occurred in dental science. This paper provides an update on comparatively newer gadgets that are less commonly used to deliver local anesthetics.