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A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Comparison of 2% Lidocaine With 1 : 100,000 Epinephrine, 4% Prilocaine With 1 : 200,000 Epinephrine, and 4% Prilocaine for Maxillary Infiltrations
Steven KatzDDS, MS,
Melissa DrumDDS, MS,
Al ReaderDDS, MS,
John NussteinDDS, MS, and
Mike BeckDDS, MA
Article Category: Research Article
Volume/Issue: Volume 57: Issue 2
Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2010
DOI: 10.2344/0003-3006-57.2.45
Page Range: 45 – 51

Maxillary infiltration anesthesia is a common method of anesthetizing maxillary teeth. Previous studies 1 – 18 have evaluated the success of maxillary infiltrations using the electric pulp tester. With a volume of ≤1.8 mL and various anesthetic formulations, pulpal anesthetic success (ie, obtaining maximum output with an electric pulp tester) ranged from 62–100%. Four percent prilocaine with 1 : 200,000 epinephrine has been found to be equivalent to 2% lidocaine with 1 : 100,000 epinephrine for inferior alveolar nerve blocks. 19

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Ingrid LawatyDMD,
Melissa DrumDDS, MS,
Al ReaderDDS, MS, and
John NussteinDDS, MS
Article Category: Research Article
Volume/Issue: Volume 57: Issue 4
Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2010
Page Range: 139 – 144

Maxillary infiltration anesthesia is a common method to anesthetize maxillary teeth. A number of studies 1 – 5 have evaluated mepivacaine with epinephrine or levonordefrin in operative dentistry and for surgical procedures. However, electric pulp testing was not performed to evaluate pulpal anesthesia. Hinkley et al, 6 in an experimental study of pulpal anesthesia, have shown that 2% mepivacaine with 1 : 20,000 levonordefrin is equivalent to 2% lidocaine with 1 : 100,000 epinephrine for an inferior alveolar nerve block. Because anesthesia

Figure 1; Incidence of maxillary lateral incisor pulpal anesthesia as determined by lack of response to electric pulp testing at the maximum setting (percentage of 80 readings), at each postinjection time interval, for the 3 anesthetic solutions.
Steven Katz,
Melissa Drum,
Al Reader,
John Nusstein, and
Mike Beck
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Incidence of maxillary lateral incisor pulpal anesthesia as determined by lack of response to electric pulp testing at the maximum setting (percentage of 80 readings), at each postinjection time interval, for the 3 anesthetic solutions.


Steven Katz,
Melissa Drum,
Al Reader,
John Nusstein, and
Mike Beck
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Incidence of maxillary first molar pulpal anesthesia as determined by lack of response to electric pulp testing at the maximum setting (percentage of 80 readings), at each postinjection time interval, for the 3 anesthetic solutions.


Ingrid Lawaty,
Melissa Drum,
Al Reader, and
John Nusstein
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Incidence of maxillary central incisor pulpal anesthesia as determined by lack of response to electrical pulp testing at the maximum setting (percentage of 80 readings), at each postinjection time interval, for the 2 anesthetic formulations. There were no significant differences (P < .05) between the solutions.


Ingrid Lawaty,
Melissa Drum,
Al Reader, and
John Nusstein
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Incidence of maxillary first molar pulpal anesthesia as determined by lack of response to electrical pulp testing at the maximum setting (percentage of 80 readings), at each postinjection time interval, for the 2 anesthetic formulations. There were no significant differences (P < .05) between the solutions.


Atsuki YamaguchiDDS,
Yuki KojimaDDS, PhD, and
Kazuya HirabayashiMD, MBA
Article Category: Brief Report
Volume/Issue: Volume 70: Issue 2
Online Publication Date: Jun 28, 2023
Page Range: 88 – 90

CASE PRESENTATION The patient was an 85-year-old woman (height 146 cm; weight 55 kg; body mass index 25 kg/m 2 ) scheduled for right partial maxillary resection and right neck dissection under general anesthesia as treatment for squamous cell carcinoma of the palate. Her medical history included Alzheimer's disease, diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, C5-C6 cervical spinal stenosis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and binocular cataracts. In addition, she also had a decreased forced expiratory volume in the first 1 second

Sunil YadavMDS,
Ajay VermaMDS, and
Akash SachdevaMDS
Article Category: Other
Volume/Issue: Volume 60: Issue 3
Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2013
Page Range: 95 – 98

Achieving excellent local anesthesia is the key to many dental treatments. Pain-free operating is an added benefit to the patient but also helps the operator to treat the patient in a calm, unhurried fashion. 1 The removal of maxillary third molars is one of the most frequently performed procedures by dental surgeons. Indications for removal include common pathological conditions such as caries, buccal eruption with food impaction or cheek biting, and recurrent pericoronitis. 2 According to the literature, for the removal of

Hiromi KimiDDS, PhD,
Mikiko YamashiroDDS, PhD, and
Shuichi HashimotoPhD
Article Category: Research Article
Volume/Issue: Volume 59: Issue 2
Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2012
Page Range: 75 – 81

to be lower than that of lidocaine. 7 We hypothesized that a factor that contributed to less effective infiltration anesthesia with ropivacaine was its decreased permeability in oral tissue. In this study, to examine the local distribution of ropivacaine and lidocaine after maxillary infiltration anesthesia, we injected radioisotope-labeled local anesthetics into the rat maxilla, and compared their distributions over time. METHODS Approval from the Animal Care Committee of the Nippon Dental University was obtained before the

Paula Cristina BrunettoDDS,
José RanaliDDS, PhD,
Gláucia Maria Bovi AmbrosanoAgr. Eng., PhD,
Patrícia Cristine de OliveiraDDS, PhD,
Francisco Carlos GroppoDDS, PhD,
John Gerard MeechanDDS, PhD, and
Maria Cristina VolpatoDDS, PhD
Article Category: Research Article
Volume/Issue: Volume 55: Issue 2
Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2008
Page Range: 29 – 34

Textbooks on local dental anesthesia 2 , 6 suggest that volumes ranging from 0.5 to 2.0 mL are needed to achieve pulpal anesthesia after local infiltration. Cowan 7 , 8 investigated the doses of lidocaine with epinephrine required to allow various operative dental treatments to be performed following maxillary infiltration but did not use a double-blind design or a controlled stimulus and did not investigate injection discomfort. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the onset and duration of pulpal anesthesia in target and adjacent teeth, as well as soft