Achieving Profound Local Anesthesia

By Camille Biorn, RDH, BS, Catherine Salisbury, RDH, MHE and Jacqueline J. Freudenthal, RDH, MHE

Profound anesthesia is essential to providing quality care during nonsurgical periodontal therapy (NSPT) and restorative and surgical procedures. The following lesser used injections offer significant benefits—such as profound anesthesia, improved patient comfort, fewer penetrations, and the administration of lower volumes of local anesthetic—compared to some more commonly employed techniques. Gow-Gates Nerve Block

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