Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgeons, anesthesia staff and other operating room personnel should be aware that periocular anesthetic ...

One of the most dreaded experiences at the dentist's office is an injection into the tissues of the mouth to numb an area requiring a painful dental procedure. But thanks to recent research at the ...

Release Date: July 26, 2013 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. – One of the most dreaded experiences at the dentist’s office is an injection into the tissues of the mouth to numb an area ...

According to the report, the study examined 24 patients who were intravitreally injected four times in combination with four different types of anesthesia: topical proparacaine, topical tetracaine, ...

BOSTON -- Patients with arthritis of the knee may find relief from locally injected anesthesia. In a randomized trial, researchers took about 60 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee and gave half ...

Application of topical anesthetic drops may be more effective at reducing pain caused by intravitreal injection, according to an OSN SuperSite report. Gregory R. Blaha, MD, PhD, one of the study’s ...

The choice of needle diameter can influence the pain felt by the patient. A well-designed randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed an inverse relation between needle diameter and pain.1 A smaller ...

Topical anesthesia provided less pain relief than retrobulbar anesthesia or peribulbar anesthesia, but was well tolerated by patients, according to a meta-analysis of accumulated data. However, ...