Beyond The Local Anesthesia
Volume 1 - Issue 1
Jonny Burga Sánchez*
Received: September 25, 2018; Published: October 01, 2018
DOI:
10.32474/LOJPCR.2018.01.000105
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Abstract
One of the most important events in dentistry history was the
discovery of local anesthetics in 1859 by Albert Niemann (1834
– 1861). In fact, this event represents the beginning of a new era
in dentistry. Despite the adverse and lethal effects of cocaine,
the first local anesthetic used in dentistry, this finding permitted
the develop of other local anesthetics with less adverse effects
and better safety index such as procaine, lidocaine, mepivacaine,
bupivacaine, prilocaine and more recently ropivacaine and
articaine. Local anesthetics constitute a group of elementary
drugs in the professional arsenal of dentistry and are the most
used drugs in this area.
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