OVERVIEW

Articaine and Paresthesia in Dental Anesthesia: Neurotoxicity or Procedural Trauma? is organized by Dentaltown, L.L.C.

Released: 05/01/2013
Expiration Date: 06/30/2028

Overview:
This course is designed to educate the dental health professional concerning the occurrence and overall incidence of reported local anesthetic-induced paresthesia. In addition, it will serve to illustrate the potential causes of such paresthesia and investigate whether the use of articaine is related to a higher frequency of occurrences of these adverse events.

Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to achieve the following:

Form an opinion concerning whether there is sufficient data to suggest an increased incidence of neurological side effects associated with the use of articaine.
Attain an awareness of other potential causes of neurological effects in patients undergoing local anesthesia.
Consider and evaluate the overall risk of local anesthetics in general as a significant contributor to neurologic adverse events.
Consider additional risk factors paresthesia might be attributed to in local anesthesia, like procedural trauma and experience of dentist.
Understand why randomization is the design of choice for clinical trials as it provides the most reliable results when investigating the risk of paresthesia after use of anesthetics.