Intraoral Local Anesthesia and Ocular Complications

Abstract

Background: Ocular complications due to intraoral local anesthesia are rare but most distressing to the dentist and patient. Ocular complications after local anesthetic injections are rarely reported in the literature and these complications include strabismus, ptosis, diplopia, blindness, ophthalmoplegia, loss of accommodation. The dentist must be vigilant and beware of ocular complications when performing local anesthetic nerve blocks.