Updates on Topical and Local Anesthesia Agents.
Use of topical and local anesthesia (LA) is the workhorse of all aspects of dentistry. There was a time in the past when dentistry was performed without any local pain control. Owing to this there are patients with dental anxiety and fear of a dental office. The media portraying dentistry as being painful, or showing a dentist with needles, enlists fear and distrust of dentists. In contrast, pain is what brings the patient to the dental office and with local pain control measures a dentist is able to alleviate the patient's cause of pain.
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