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Chapter-09 “Needle Phobia”—No More!

BOOK TITLE: Child Management in Clinical Dentistry

Author
1. Jawdekar Ashwin
ISBN
9788184488739
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11352_9
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2010
Pages
11
Author Affiliations
1. MGM Dental College and Hospital, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, India
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Abstract

Local anesthesia is mandatory for most dental procedures. If we fail to achieve adequate anesthesia, we can rarely accomplish treatment with ease. The advantages of local anesthesia, therefore, need not be over-emphasized. It is an acquired skill of a dentist to administer local anesthesia to a child patient. The most crucial part of a pediatric dental procedure is the successful administration of local anesthesia since the cooperation of the child and subsequently, the quality of dental treatment depends on it. The child management and the pain management are interdependent. If one fails to achieve local anesthesia, he/she can rarely succeed in doing a good job. However, if one successfully administers local anesthesia, half the battle is won! Author explains his own step-by-step method of administering local anesthesia to a child patient, and also cites two other contributors’ techniques for the administration of local anesthesia.

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