Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Abstract

Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry- Lignocaine too Good or Articaine the Best?

Anil Patil, Anand Shigli, Sachin Gunda, Sridevi Tamgond, Sharmila Patil and Sandhya Huddar

Local anaesthesia is key to painless dental surgical, endodontic and operative procedures. Lignocaine is the gold standard for pain management in dentistry since ages. But, articaine is more potent than lignocaine in attaining infiltration local anaesthesia with low toxicity. Currently, articaine is extensively utilized in dentistry however infrequently used in children. Nevertheless, for selection of local anaesthetic; potency, latency, and duration of anaesthetic effect, pharmacokinetics and toxicity of anaesthetics should be evaluated. Therefore, we will discuss whether “lignocaine is too good or articaine is the best” to accomplish complete pain control with safety and efficacy.