REVIEW ARTICLE
Year : 2020 | Volume
: 12 | Issue : 2 | Page : 101--105
A new horizon in needle-less anesthesia: Intranasal tetracaine/oxymetazoline spray for maxillary dental anesthesia - An overview
Sauvik Galui, Raju Biswas, Niharika Pandey, Avik Narayan Chatterjee, Subrata Saha, Subir Sarkar
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Sauvik Galui
Departemnt of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, 114 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata - 700 014, West Bengal
India
Local anesthesia is routinely employed for different dental procedures ranging from simple tooth extraction to complex periodontal surgery in day to day dental practice. Although 2% lidocaine with epinephrine in the different ratio is the most commonly used injectable local anesthetic agent, different noninjectable techniques have also been tried. Intranasal 3% tetracaine/0.05% oxymetazoline spray is currently the Food and Drug Administration (USA) approved for performing single restoration in maxillary teeth up to the second premolar, though maximum success rate has been found with maxillary anterior. Different clinical trials were done to evaluate the efficacy and safety of this combination spray for the maxillary teeth anesthesia. Although this technique has some limitations like it cannot be used in patients weighing <88lb, it has some advantages too. This technique is very useful in needle-phobic patients and it also avoids the risk of needle stick injury. This article reviews the efficacy, safety, and clinical utility of this intranasal spray for the use in the dental procedure and also encourage further clinical trials and research for its safety in pediatric patients and efficacy in more invasive procedures.
How to cite this article:
Galui S, Biswas R, Pandey N, Chatterjee AN, Saha S, Sarkar S. A new horizon in needle-less anesthesia: Intranasal tetracaine/oxymetazoline spray for maxillary dental anesthesia - An overview.J Oral Res Rev 2020;12:101-105
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Galui S, Biswas R, Pandey N, Chatterjee AN, Saha S, Sarkar S. A new horizon in needle-less anesthesia: Intranasal tetracaine/oxymetazoline spray for maxillary dental anesthesia - An overview. J Oral Res Rev [serial online] 2020 [cited 2023 Mar 31 ];12:101-105
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