Successful local anesthesia is essential to virtually all dental procedures. Many local anesthetics used today are combined with a vasoconstrictor (eg, epinephrine), which provides several advantages including increased anesthetic duration, decreased local anesthetic systemic toxicity, surgical site hemostasis, and enhanced neural blockade. 1 – 4 Because typical (first-generation) and atypical (second-generation) antipsychotic drugs have an α-1 adrenergic receptor blocking action, 5 it is thought that β-2 adrenergic receptor activity