Local Anesthesia for Dental Professionals 2022 Update, 2nd edition

2023 update available!

Local Anesthesia for Dental Professionals is your go-to guide for pain control practices and procedures. The text provides step-by-step instructions using easy-to-understand language and superb illustrations to help you learn new injection techniques and improve your clinical skills.

For courses in Pain Control, Local Anesthesia in Dentistry, and Nitrous Oxide Sedation (minimal sedation) in Dentistry.

Local Anesthesia for Dental Professionals, 2/e provides a user-friendly, primary resource for instructors and students of pain control. This text is appropriate for both dental and dental hygiene students and provides step-by-step instructions that are also useful to practicing clinicians seeking to improve their skills or learn new injection techniques. In addition to the superb illustrations, step-by-step approach, and easy-to-understand language established in the first edition, the new second edition includes both local anesthesia and nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation. Extensive online resources and a companion technique DVD augment this text, providing a comprehensive resource for students and dental professionals.

Teaching and Learning Experience

Local Anesthesia for Dental Professionals, 2/e provides unparalleled coverage in a straightforward, user-friendly format. It provides:

• Comprehensive yet accessible content: The text is an all-in-one resource in local anesthesia for dental and dental hygiene students and professionals.
• Real-world learning: Chapters present practical expertise, case studies, and resources that will be referenced again and again.
• Extensive teaching and learning resources: Numerous text features and supplemental materials facilitate both teaching and learning. 

Hallmark Features

Comprehensive yet accessible content.

• The text provides unmatched breadth of coverage, including dedicated chapters on the fundamentals of pain, dose calculations, troubleshooting inadequate anesthesia, fear management, pedodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, periodontics, and endodontics.
• NEW! An all-new chapter on nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation examines both dental and dental hygiene perspectives. At the time of publishing, no other dental or dental hygiene local anesthesia text includes this topic.
• Material is presented in clear, easy-to-follow language. Expert authors present even complex concepts in straightforward terms that facilitate understanding. 
• Original diagrams, tables, and charts have been carefully designed to clarify text material in a consistent format throughout the text.
• NEW! Many new figures have been added and updated with improved images.
• NEW! The second edition provides additional information and instruction on the use of CCLAD devices and techniques. 

Real-world learning:

• Numerous case studies present realistic scenarios to encourage critical thinking and enhance clinical application skills.
• Chapters, appendices, and boxed features were composed by specialists and experts in the field, providing practical research- and experienced-based knowledge. 

Extensive teaching and learning resources:

• Chapters are designed to facilitate learning, including clearly stated chapter objectives and end-of-chapter review questions based on those objectives.
• Multiple appendices provide quick access to charts and tables that are clinically useful on a daily basis.
• Online resources including a comprehensive study guide.
• A companion DVD (available for purchase separately or as a package with the text) includes additional student resources. 

The second edition brings the text up to date with recent developments in the field and incorporates new information on nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation.

Overview

• NEW! An all-new chapter on nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation.
• NEW! Many new figures have been added and updated with improved images.
• NEW! The second edition provides additional information and instruction on the use of CCLAD devices and techniques. 

Chapter-by-Chapter Changes

Chapter 1

• Chapter 1 has been replaced with new discussion of the perspectives on local anesthesia and the education required to administer the drugs involved. The historical information previously included Chapter 1 has been integrated into relevant chapters throughout the text.

Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10

• Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 have been extensively edited and updated to reflect the latest current dosing guidelines provided by manufacturers and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  

Chapters 9

• Chapter 9  includes a new appendix on computer-controlled local anesthetic delivery (CCLAD) devices and techniques written by Dr. Mark Hochman, co-designer of two important local anesthetic techniques and the developer of the most popular CCLAD device available today.  

Chapters 11–16

• Chapters 11 through 16 have been similarly updated with the contributions of noted researcher Dr. Sean Boynes, author and dental anesthesiologist, to provide best-practice approaches to safe and effective local anesthesia administration. 

Chapter 17

• Chapter 17 received similar scrutiny and contributions, including updated information on the development of nerve injury symptoms following local anesthesia administration.  

Chapter 21

• Chapter 21 is an entirely new chapter on nitrous oxide-oxygen sedation and its use in dental and dental hygiene practice, co-written by a dental hygienist – dentist team.