New mode of oral sedation
Dental anxiety keeps millions of people from seeing the dentist as often as they should. Our sources indicate that sedation dentistry will soon offer a new way of relieving dental fear: medical marijuana. With an…
The Use of Office-Based Sedation and General Anesthesia by Board Certified Pediatric Dentists Practicing in the United States
The purpose of this study is to explore the use of office-based sedation by board-certified pediatric dentists practicing in the United States. Pediatric dentists have traditionally relied upon self-administered sedation techniques to provide…
Preschoolers in Surgery for a Mouthful of Cavities
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS Published: March 6, 2012 SEATTLE — In the surgical wing of the Center for Pediatric Dentistry at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Devon Koester, 2 ½ years old, was resting last month in his mother’s arms…
Setting Standards – Yankee Dental Congress
From Robin Goodman – Dental Tribune America BOSTON, Mass., USA: During the recent Yankee Dental Congress, constant rain gave attendees ample reason to get lost among the educational lectures or the aisles of…
More U.S. periodontists offering IV sedation
By Rob Goszkowski, Assistant Editor Dr.Bicuspid January 4, 2012 – The concerted efforts of U.S. dental schools to offer more IV sedation training for periodontists have had a significant impact on the profession, according to the…
Needle-free anesthetic close to marketability
From Dental Tribune USA – January 10, 2012 SILVER SPRING, Md. & FORT COLLINS, Colo., USA: Efficacy trials for a new dental anesthetic that saves patients the pain of injections are continuing after…
Addition Of Mannitol Increases Effectiveness Of Dental Nerve Block Anesthesia
By Marty Jablow Allowing a patient to be comfortable and pain-free during surgical and restorative dental procedures is an essential part of the process. The most commonly used local anesthetic injection for lower…
The Efficacy of Mylohyoid Nerve Anaesthesia on Dental Implant Placement at the Edentulous Posterior Mandibular Ridge
Journal of Oral Implantology - with obvious implications for the endodontically needy hot tooth Hasan A ALTUG, Metin SENCIMEN, Altan VAROL, Necdet DOGAN, Necdet KOCABIYIK, and Aydin GULSES, DDS PhD Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Oral…
AZ Endodontist on Painless Dental Injections With “Onset”
Anesthetic buffering with Onset by Onpharma.com Related articles Endo Perio Implant Algorithm Redux (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) I Don’t Think So!!!!!!!!!! (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Innovative dental injection system could ameliorate patient discomfort (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) There are times you simply…
Innovative dental injection system could ameliorate patient discomfort
from Dental Tribune International – August 10, 2011 NEWCASTLE, UK: Researchers from Newcastle University have developed a dental injection system that could reduce patients’ pain when being injected. The system, a modification of…
History of nitrous oxide
Takes a minute to get to the heart of the subject matter, but well worth the wait……. Related articles Nitrous oxide and childbirth: Why laughing gas could be coming to a maternity ward…
Dr. Bicuspid – Leaders in Dentistry: A conversation with Dr. Joel Weaver
Ahem Melissa, can we do this in Canada, huh, huh, can we, can we, please, please, pretty please. From Rob Goszkowski – Dr. Bicuspid August 2, 2011 – DrBicuspid.com is pleased to present the latest…
IV Sedation Training for Dentists
From PR.com – July 31, 2011 www.SedationConsulting.com The nation’s leading provider of continuing education and training on the administration of sedation for dental and medical procedures announced today that they are now providing…
Trigeminal nerve injuries related to local anaesthesia in dentistry
Probably shouldn’t be doing this, but as a child of the 60′s, that doesn’t stop me – the article below is relevant and salient and resonates with the recent publication in the RCDSO…
Pierrel Research USA Launches Orabloc™ A New Purer Articaine
From Medical News Today Pierrel Research USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Pierrel SpA, the Italian-based, global pharmaceutical services company, announces the US launch of Orabloc™ (Articaine hydrochloride 4% with epinephrine 1:100,000 and Articaine…
American woman wakes from surgery with British accent – pity eh what!
No, this is not an updated version of the Guess Who song from 1970… By Seamus McGraw When she went under the oral surgeon‘s knife 18 months ago, Karen Butler sounded like any…










