ANAT30008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Maxillary Nerve, Local Anesthetic, Vasoconstriction

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Anatomy and Neuroscience
• Course: ANAT30008
• Professor: Jason Ivanusic

Document Summary

* nothing we do for our patients is more important than the correct administration of local anaesthetic to prevent pain during dental treatment. Many blood vessels & nerves inside oral cavity, so getting exact local anaesthetic can be challenging. If you inject a vein for example, it will go straight to the heart if you inject adrenaline because it causes vasoconstriction to make anaesthetic last longer can lead to palpations or arthymea. Injecting into an artery such as the fascial artery, could lead to the skin of your face going numb and white because it causes vasoconstriction. * nothing will empty a waiting room more than injuring a patient. * the maxillary nerve & mandibular nerve anaesthetise these two nerves. * the maxilla nerve enters the maxilla posterior to the 3rd molar and give branches to individual nerves. The maxilla is a thin bone and anaesthetic can diffuse through it.