The management of broken dental needles during inferior alveolar nerve block procedures remains a critical yet infrequent complication in dental practice. This condition arises primarily due to ...

The mandible exhibits complex anatomical variations that are critical for successful surgical interventions and local anaesthetic procedures. The mandibular ramus houses several key landmarks – ...

Buccal infiltration with 4% articaine may achieve a comparable anesthetic effect to inferior alveolar nerve block with 2% lidocaine when performing pulp therapy in kids' lower jaw molars, reports a ...

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 ...

Supplemental infiltration injections with articaine are more effective than the same type of injection with lidocaine after the initial failure of an inferior alveolar nerve block, a new study shows.

AIM: This article is a narrative review of inferior alveolar nerve transposition for the placement of dental implants in severely atrophied mandibles. METHODS: Clinical reports on dental implants from ...

The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. Recognized as one of the ...

A coronectomy is a dental procedure that’s done in certain situations as an alternative to having a wisdom tooth extraction. A coronectomy can be done when a dentist feels there’s an increased risk of ...