x-no-archive: yes
Once again, I will request politely that you please stop cross posting
this thread to SIX different news groups. This a tremendous waste of
bandwidth and has not solicited any interest on the ASSD news group. I
suggest respectfully that you restrict this thread to where it
belongs.....The dental news group
You co operation on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
........Bear.........
Brian Sandle wrote:
>> In sci.med.dentistry K. Bennett <klmwb at cybergal.com> wrote:
> : I have also had SEVERE seizures from Lidocaine injections in Dental Offices. I
> : found that I don't have that reaction from it if it is the type WITHOUT
> : EPINEPHRINE!!! NO EPI...The injections usually are given with this included to
> : help keep the med localized for longer...without it, it takes about 30 minutes
> : before you have to have another shot!
>> I was asking the dentist about that. He says he does not use epinephrine
> (also known as adrenaline). He says that it is a different thing from a
> vasoconstrictor. That puzzled me. I was saying that becuase he did not
> use adrenaline - a vasoconstrictor - that perhaps the mepivicaine or
> prilocaine that he uses would travel further into areas where it might
> cause other trouble.
>> I think he uses longer acting anesthetics to compensate.
>> On the sci.med.dentistry thread I have been making some comments about
> allergy to dental filling composite material and also putting some
> questions about the cerebrospinal pressure (and its pulse).
>> Tell the folks you deal with "NO EPI" and
> : your shakes can be "normal" terror from sounds of drilling and smells of YOUR
> : teeth being drilled!
>> : Also, I recently had a root canal redone, and they told me that they weren't
> : gonna use Lidocaine at all because they preferred (?not sure heard exactly
> : rightly?) DARVOCAINE? for that?
>> : Ask...
>> Actually I don't feel much difference in discomfort with or without
> injection.
>> : K. Bennett
>> Brian Sandle
