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ArticleInternational dental journal2020

Local anaesthesia in dentistry: a review.

Derek Decloux, Aviv Ouanounou

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Article in International dental journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Derek DeclouxDiscipline of Dental Anaesthesia, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Aviv OuanounouDepartment of Clinical Sciences (Pharmacology & Preventive Dentistry), Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past century, there is perhaps no greater contribution to the practice of clinical dentistry than the development and application of local anaesthesia. What were once considered painful procedures have now been made routine by the deposition and action of local anaesthetics. This article will serve as a review of basic pharmacological principles of local anaesthesia, subsequent sequelae that can arise from their use, considerations when using local anaesthetics, and recent advances in the delivery of local anaesthetics.

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adverse reactiondrug interactionLocal anaestheticsmechanism of actionpharmacology

Identifiers

PMID32944974
PMCPMC9275172

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