NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.

General Information

| |

The Body

| |

Complications

| |

Symptoms and Tests

| |

Treatment

| |

Staying Healthy

| |

Additional Information

Clinical Trials

Request an Appointment

Overview

The use of anesthetics by appropriately trained dentists in the dental office and other settings has a remarkable record of safety. Anesthesia-trained dentists work with their patients to determine the appropriate steps to make dental visits as safe, comfortable, and pain-free as possible.

Dentists have a variety of anesthetics available to meet the unique circumstances of each patient.

• Local anesthetics are used to control pain in and around the mouth during treatment.
• Oral sedatives or nitrous oxide/oxygen (laughing gas) are frequently used by cooperative but anxiou (More)

  ---

  General Information

  ADA Online: Understanding Dental Anesthesia: What Every Patient Should Know Oral Health/Dental Specialists The American Dental Society of of Anesthesiology:Patient Information

  ---

  The Body

  Dental Health: Anatomy/Physiology

  ---

  Complications

  Allergies to the `Caine` Family-alternative Local Anesthesia and Asthma

  ---

  Symptoms and Tests

  Common Dental Symptoms (American Association of Endodontists)

  ---

  Treatment

  Wisdom Teeth Extraction

  ---

  Staying Healthy

  My Family Health Portrait U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative Dental Health

  ---

  Additional information on Dental Anesthesia

  Research/Other News Facts and Figures Insurance/Financing

  Organizations, Directories For Ohioans PubMed Search Spanish Language websites

  This topic is supported in part by Delta Dental of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Tennessee and Renaissance .