Using herbs to relieve dental pain has been a popular option for centuries due to their availability, reliable effectiveness, and safety without adverse effects found in chemicals. Many plants have ...

The inferior alveolar nerve, also known as the inferior dental nerve, supplies sensations such as heat, cold, pressure, and pain to your lower jaw and teeth. It also controls the movement of certain ...

The surgical extraction was performed under local anesthesia. The patient was positioned in a semi-supine posture, and the area was anesthetized using two carpules of 2% lidocaine with 1:80,000 ...

The inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) is a dental anesthetic injection that is critical to the performance of many dental procedures. Dental students typically learn to administer an IANB through ...

Although medical simulators have benefited from the use of haptics and virtual reality (VR) for decades, the former has become the bottleneck in producing a low-cost, compact, and accurate training ...

The mental nerve is a sensory nerve that provides feeling to your lower lip, the front of your chin, and a portion of your gums. It’s one of the branches of the inferior alveolar nerve, which is a ...

Virtual reality effectively manages anxiety among patients undergoing restorative procedures with inferior alveolar nerve block suggests a new study published in the Journal of Dentistry A study was ...

Vivek Hegde, Srilatha Shanmugasundaram, Samia Shaikh, Nandini Suresh, Frank C. Setzer, Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu, et al. Effect of Preoperative Oral Steroids in Comparison to Anti-inflammatory on ...

The anesthetic efficacy of an inferior alveolar nerve block increased when patients were given oral doses of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ketorolac, the corticosteroid dexamethasone, or the ...

The management of pain during root canal treatment is important to patient and dentist. Failure to achieve anaesthesia during inferior alveolar nerve block ranges from 30-90% and is attributable to ...