Alternative to dental anesthesia

Alternative to dental anesthesia

An inhalation anesthetic that is applied in the future could replace dental anesthesia administered by injection and will facilitate both work and patient dentist who's afraid of the dentist and needles default.

As dental anesthesia?

A noninvasive substance, the role of anesthetic is administered through the nose to the brain, olfactory and trigeminal nerve (a nerve that crosses the face, has three branches: an ophthalmic branch holds forehead, a division comprising jaw and the last is the branch jaw. trigeminal nerve, with a high sensitivity to cold and hot receptors transmit signals through neurons, so feel headache, tooth).

How does this type of dental anesthesia?

Currently, no research has tested whether the nasal administration of the anesthetic reaches the orofacial structures, although a high concentration of anesthetic was observed in these tissues excitand trigeminal nerve.

In humans, the trigeminal nerve passes through the maxillary sinus maxillary teeth then reach. Intranasal delivery of lidocaine may provide an effective technique of anesthesia for maxillary nerve block a noninvasive, facilitating work with a dentist work on patients teeth.

In the study conducted by U.S. researchers, published in the journal Molecular Pharmacy, there was a difference in concentration that could allow intranasal administration of therapeutics to treat disorders of orofacial structures (eg teeth and facial muscles), without causing unwanted side effects in the brain in the body.

Intranasally, could be used for vaccination and treatment of disorders with fewer side effects such as tooth pain, trigeminal neuralgia, headaches and brain disease.
Currently, these studies are in the experimental phase.