The field of equine dental surgery has witnessed significant advancements through the integration of refined surgical techniques and enhanced nerve block procedures. Modern approaches stress 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 ...

Numb lips, a bitten cheek, slurred words. For years dentists haven't had much choice about causing such temporary discomforts with a nerve block in patients needing mandibular procedures. But recent ...

In the medical world, there are two ways to go about things: there is the “book way” and there is the “hospital way”. The book way is how it is supposed to be done; the hospital way is the more ...

DrBicuspid.com is pleased to present the next column from two lawyers who spend every day defending dentists in litigation and before the licensing board. The purpose of this column is to offer our ...

A nerve block, or neural blockade, is a method of producing anesthesia — a loss of feeling used to prevent or control pain. Nerve blocks can be surgical or nonsurgical. Nonsurgical nerve blocks ...

I see a lot of folks with dental trauma and dental pain. Over the years I have become very comfortable doing dental nerve blocks, and occasionally putting displaced teeth back into the sockets. I've ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Organ Support and Automation Technologies team is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to ...

A nerve block works by preventing pain signals from reaching the brain. There are permanent and temporary options. Both are generally safe procedures. Nerve blocks are an effective way to prevent, ...