Successful Pilot Trial of Needle-free Dental Anaesthesia
Researchers are literally taking the pain out of visits to the dentist after the successful creation and pilot trial of a needle-free device for dental … more
Anesthesia
Man Dies After Being Given Too Much Anesthesia During Dental Surgery
According to the Lake County Coroner’s Office, Corey Causey visited Dr. Aaron Swik at the Oral Maxillofacial Surgeons of Lake County facility on June 9 … more
Intraosseous Access to the Circulation: A Valuable Tool in Medical Emergencies
The two most common methods for administering systemic medications to dental patients is by enteral (PO) or intravenous (IV) routes. In an emergency, the PO … more
NPO Guidelines and Current Evidence-Based Considerations
Current nil per os (npo) standards promote pre-operative fasting as an approach to reduce the volume and acidity of a patient’s stomach contents to reduce … more
Peri-Operative Epistaxis During Dentistry: A Case Report
Epistaxis (nasal bleeding) is a relatively common complication that may arise during a dental visit that utilizes sedation/anesthesia. While rarely fatal, appropriate and prompt management … more
Reviewing Contraindications to Nitrous Oxide
All practitioners who deliver nitrous oxide to their patients should be intimately familiar with the relative and absolute contraindications to its administration. Relative Contraindications Nasal … more
Mandibular Anesthesia: Troubleshooting and Overcoming Failure to Anesthetize
Abstract When difficulty in obtaining adequate mandibular anesthesia is encountered a systematic approach incorporating the evaluation of patient factors and operator technique will substantially improve … more
Assessing BONES May Give You Moans, But it Can Help Manage Oversedation
Pre-operative airway assessment and management is essential to successful dental treatment under procedural sedation. In the event of oversedation, defined as the transition from an … more
Evidence-Based Guidelines and Regulations?
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign/Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind/Do this, don’t do that/Can’t you read the sign?” – Signs by The Five Man … more
Vancouver Dental Office Owner Fined $5,000 In Death Of 4-Year-Old
Washington’s Dental Quality Assurance Commission has fined an owner of Must Love Kids Pediatric Dentistry in Vancouver in connection with the death of a 4-year-old … more
‘Absolute Hell’: Parents Say Of Daughter, 5, Who Almost Died After Routine Dental Surgery
Autumn Ferguson went into a Regina dental clinic with a few cavities, and left in an ambulance on life support. The five-year-old girl’s lungs collapsed … more
Edmonton Dentist to Pay $330,000 After Patient Left with Permanent Brain Damage
A retired Edmonton dentist has to pay $330,000 related to the case of a young girl who suffered permanent brain damage following a dentist appointment … more
Dental Board Votes to Allow Arrested Dentist to Keep Practicing
The Arizona dental board rejected calls from Governor Doug Ducey to take stronger action against a dentist facing criminal charges for falsifying his anesthesia credentials. … more
Intraosseous Local Anesthesia Revisited
To view figures, click on figure mentions throughout the article. Your patient in the chair has confirmed that their lips and tongue are numb from … more
Putting the Risk in Context
Sedation and anesthesia for dentistry has come under scrutiny in the past few years due to a few tragic events where patients experienced harm. These … more
Bias vs. Integrity
Honesty is such a lonely word – Billy Joel Bias and integrity are strange bedfellows. They are two qualities that we speak of in absolute … more
Top 10 Dental News Stories of 2017
It’s been quite a year in dental news! 2017 seemed to bring on some interesting areas of concerns for dental hygienists – whether it was … more
Alberta Dentists Suspended from Providing Anesthesia
The Alberta Dental Association and College (ADA&C) has permanently suspended single operator sedation. The motion was passed at a meeting on May 24, which states … more
Cetylite® Launches New Cool Mint Flavor of Cetacaine® Topical Anesthetic Gel
Cetylite® Inc. recently designed a new flavor of one of its flagship products, Cetacaine® Topical Anesthetic Gel. Cetacaine will now feature a Cool Mint flavored … more
Safety of Dental Anaesthesia – A Short Literature Review
Caleb Sears was a healthy six-year-old boy in California that went to his oral surgeon’s office for a routine extraction under general anaesthesia (GA). Unfortunately, … more