Inferior Alveolar Nerve: A branch of the mandibular nerve responsible for sensory innervation of the lower teeth, which is targeted during nerve block procedures.

It's difficult to achieve adequate pulpal anesthesia in teeth, specifically those in the posterior mandible, with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. Though inferior alveolar nerve blocks are the ...

Dentists may inadvertently destroy incipient third molars when they administer alveolar nerve blocks in young children, a new study shows. Jerry Swee, MS, DMD, a clinical instructor from the ...