Aisling O'Mahony

BDentSc, FDS (RCSI), MS (Oral Biology), DDS, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Considerations in dental local anaesthesia for the patient with cleft lip and palate

To minimize discomfort and pain, we recommend anaesthetizing distal to the site of the scar tissue, for example in a unilateral cleft lip and palate, the local anaesthetic should be given initially in...