Throughout history, a toothache has been considered one of the worst experiences humans endure. The fear of dental pain, known as odontophobia, is a common anxiety related to the anticipation of ...

General anaesthesia owes its development to the members of the young dental profession in the nineteenth century, who exploited its discovery for the benefit of their patients As an effective and ...

The advancement of dental local anaesthesia techniques has significantly improved pain management and patient comfort in clinical practice. Innovations such as needle‐free injections, ...

The Ohio State Dental Board has permanently revoked the anesthesia permit of a dentist and suspended his dental license ...

1. Local anesthesia comprises of topical anesthesia and injectable local anesthesia. a) Topical Anesthetics are applied locally to mouth tissues with a swab to prevent pain on the surface level.

Can you guess which states in the U.S. still do not allow dental hygienists to administer local anesthesia? Chances are, your hunch was right: States in the traditionally conservative south -- Alabama ...

As you might expect of most any six-year-old, Caleb Sears was afraid on the March, 2015 day his mom and dad took him to the dentist. “I was scared too,” said his mother, Eliza. “Any time you you send ...

Getting out of the dentist's office in comfort used to be as hard to do as pulling teeth. Any significant dental work used to mean enduring a "block," or another of those medieval gum-numbing ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Dental Board has approved changes to General Anesthesia and Sedation Rules meant to improve patient safety. The changes come in the wake of outcry over the ...