A necessary part of the dental process is to allow a patient to feel comfortable and pain-free during surgical and restorative dental procedures. The most widespread local anesthetic injection for lower teeth is the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) block. Despite this, the rates of ineffectiveness range from 10 to 39 percent.A study testing the efficacy of adding of mannitol to the typical anesthetic used in Ian blocks was presented by the journal “Anesthesia Progress.”
The participants were forty adult patients, who received an IAN block at each appointment at least once a week.
