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An Expanded Functions Dental Assistant is not permitted to administer local anesthetics because they have not been trained to administer local anesthetics, and they are not trained to handle the potential complications of administering local anesthetics.
there are two main classes of anesthetics 1. General anesthetics 2. Local anesthetics General anesthetics are used to produce general analgesia (total unconsciousness) that is utilized for surgery purpose. eg. chloroform Local anesthetics are used to produce analgesia (numbness) to local area of body (particular area) eg, xylocaine
No. They call them local anesthetics because they are localized to a specific area. This makes the area go numb, and you will remain awake.
Injectable local anesthetics provide pain relief for some part of the body during surgery,dental procedures,or other medical procedures.commonly used injectable local anesthetics are lidocaine(Xylocaine),bupivacaine(Marcaine), and mepivacaine(Carbocaine)
Local anesthetics, such as benzocaine, lidocaine and tetracaine, to temporarily relieve the pain
There are different types of anesthetic. Some states may allow assistants to apply topical anesthetics, but no state allows assistants to inject local anesthetics or induce nitrous oxide or general anesthetics.
Local anesthetics include cocaine, procaine, lidocaine, while generic anesthetics are divided into inhaled (desflurane, nitrous oxide) and intravenous (diazepam, lorazepam, and barbiturates) anesthetics.
Local anesthetics are used to prevent patients from feeling pain during medical, surgical, or dental procedures
Local and regional anesthetics help to make many conditions and procedures more comfortable and tolerable for patients.
Some of the cases could be caused by standard local anesthetics such as Marcain combined with epinephrine.
Eutectic mixture of local anesthetics, a drug combination for use on intact skin.
EMLA stands for eutectic mixture of local anesthetics. It's a numbing cream.