Why Does Local Anaesthesia Not Work Every Time?

From Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2005 | Pages 66-72

Authors

J.G. Meechan

PhD, FDS

Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Dental School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Articles by J.G. Meechan

Abstract

This paper describes the reasons why local anaesthesia may fail. It offers strategies to help overcome failure of local anaesthesia in dentistry.

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