Deaths from dental anesthesia.

Tension pneumothorax during dental anesthesia.

Subcutaneous emphysema of the face or neck which may extend into the mediastinum can complicate the use of high-speed air-turbine dental drills (1-5) or dental extractions (1). Pneumopericardium with subcutaneous emphysema has also occurred after maxillary surgery (6). Pneumopericardium, where air may have forced its way through a tear in the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory passages, h...

Local Dental Anesthesia with Vasoconstrictor

• Few tests compared local dental anesthesia with vasoconstrictor versus no vasoconstrictor. The vasoconstrictor seems to improve the effectiveness and the duration of the anesthesia. • Anesthetic associations containing 1/200,000 adrenaline concentration seem to present the most favourable balance benefit-risks. At this concentration, the quantities of adrenaline injected during everyday denta...

Blood Reflux into Cartridge in Dental Anesthesia

Anesthesia and sedation in the dental office.

Occular complications following dental local anesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of appearance and the factors most commonly associated with ocular complications following dental local anesthesia, also establishing the location and type of anesthesia used. STUDY DESIGN An indexed search in the Pubmed and Compludoc databases was carried out with the keywords "oral anesthesia", "ocular", "ophthalmologic", "damage", "complications", "inje...