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"NOYB" wrote in message ... "JohnH" wrote in message ... On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:28:04 GMT, "Don White" wrote: "JohnH" wrote in message news On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:04:52 GMT, "NOYB" wrote: snip Just before the second round of cutting, after she lied about "stinging" a little, I stopped her and said, "Let's be honest, this is going to feel like an ice pick going through the roof of my mouth into my brain. Why don't you just tell me the truth?" Her reply was, "Colonel Herring, do you really think I'd have much of a practice if I told all my patients that?" She did have a point. snip Most dentiists will rub a bit of banana flavoured stuff to surface freeze where the needle pricks. Your people must have enjoyed watching you twitch. That stuff, Novocaine(?), just never did much for me. Maybe if I'd drank a glassful, but they never offered enough. The topical gel applied before the needle is benzocaine. It helps only a little bit. The best way to ensure that a shot is painless is to inject sloooooooooowly. However, there is almost no way to make those shots in the palate painless. I almost never give 'em...but I don't do perio surgery. There is a lidocaine transdermal patch that, if applied about 10 minutes before the palatal shot, works pretty well. BTW--we don't use novocaine anymore. We use lidocaine, mepivacaine, bupivacaine, articaine, or prilocaine. Articaine works better than any of them...and bupivacaine lasts the longest. Doesn't matter what it is, you still end up drooling out of half your mouth for the rest of the day :-) |
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