Nam, Yoonhyoung Min, Seyeon Park, Wonse Kim, Kee-Deog
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Local anesthetics are an essential part of pain control during dental treatment. Despite its effectiveness and safety, patients should constantly be aware of potential adverse effects, including allergic reactions. Allergic reactions to amide-type local anesthetics (LAs), such as lidocaine and mepivacaine, are rare compared to those to ester-type L...
Kothari, Payal Mathur, Aditi Chauhan, Rashmi Singh Nankar, Meenakshi Tirupathi, Sunnypriyatham Suvarna, Ashrita
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background Dental anxiety is a matter of serious concern to pediatric dentists as it may impede the efficient delivery of dental care. If not adequately resolved, a persistent negative response pattern may emerge. Thaumaturgy, commonly known as magic trick, has become popular recently. It is a tool that distracts and relaxes the child by using magi...
Masuda, Keisuke Furuyama, Akira Ohsuga, Kenji Abe, Shota Kawaai, Hiroyoshi
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background Recent animal studies have suggested the role of GABA type A (GABA-A) receptors in salivation, showing that GABA-A receptor agonists inhibit salivary secretion. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of propofol (a GABA-A agonist) on salivary secretions from the submandibular, sublingual, and labial glands during intravenous sedation i...
Babu. S, Jawahar Jayakumar, Naveen Kumar Siroraj, Pearlcid
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background Surgical extraction of impacted mandibular third molars is the most common procedure performed by oral surgeons. The procedure cannot be performed effectively without achieving profound anesthesia. During this procedure, patients may feel pain during surgical bone removal (at the cancellous level) or during splitting and luxation of the ...
Manta, Kalliopi Dabarakis, Nikolaos Lillis, Theodoros Fotopoulos, Ioannis
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background The limited studies on the effect of buffering on the clinical efficacy of articaine have reported controversial results. The purpose of this study was to clinically compare the pain of injection, anesthetic success, onset, and duration of pulpal anesthesia of buffered 4% articaine with epinephrine 1:100000 versus a non-buffered 4% artic...
Choi, Eun-Ji Kim, Cheul-Hong Yoon, Ji-Young Kim, Eun-Jung
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Sedation methods for dental treatment are increasingly explored. Recently, ketofol, which is a combination of ketamine and propofol, has been increasingly used because the advantages and disadvantages of propofol and ketamine complement each other and increase their effectiveness. In this review, we discuss the pharmacology of ketamine and propofol...
Agarwal, Abhilasha Ansari, Afroz Alam Nath, Rajendra Chak, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Rajeev Kumar Khanna, Richa Singh, Prem Raj
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background In order to assess the effectiveness of various analgesio-sedative combinations for pain relief and sedation in pediatric dental patients, a thorough evaluation of clinical studies and patient outcomes is necessary. Methods A total of 128 healthy, uncooperative pediatric dental patients were randomly allocated to receive one of the four ...
Ishikawa, Emi Shibuya, Makiko Yokoyama, Ayako Hojo, Takayuki Kimura, Yukifumi Fujisawa, Toshiaki
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
We provided general anesthesia management to a patient with advanced atrioventricular block, which was discovered in the remote period after open-heart surgery. A 21-year-old man with Noonan syndrome was scheduled to undergo excision of a median intramandibular tumor. At 2 months of age, the patient underwent endocardial repair for congenital heart...
Sahithi, Varada Saikiran, Kanamarlapudi Venkata Nunna, Mahesh Elicherla, Sainath Reddy Challa, Ramasubba Reddy Nuvvula, Sivakumar
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Sohal, Karpal Singh Bald, Frank Mwalutambi, Samwel Laizer, Paulo J Deoglas, David K Moshy, Jeremiah Robert Kileo, Baraka Joshua, Noah Sewangi, Sospeter
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Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Background With advances in safety measures for anesthesia, conscious sedation has gained popularity in the field of dentistry and has become essential in dental practice worldwide. However, in Tanzania, intravenous (IV) sedation is rarely practiced in the dental field. Therefore, we report the establishment of sustainable IV conscious sedation in ...