Alternative Anesthesia Techniques

By Kathryn Bell, RDH, EPDH, MS, Gail Aamodt, RDH, EPDH, MS

Most practitioners who provide local anesthesia encounter difficulty achieving adequate pain relief at some point. This is especially true for mandibular block anesthesia. Failure to achieve anesthesia may be due to a host of factors, ranging from operator-dependent to patient-dependent to a combination of both. Examples of operator-dependent factors include inappropriate choice of injection or anesthetic solution and/or poor technique. Patient-dependent factors include anatomical variation, pathological conditions such as infection, and psychological factors such as dental fear and anxiety.¹

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