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Local Anesthesia

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Local anesthesia is an integral part of any procedure to be provided in the clinical setting. This chapter covers local anesthetic agents that are available along with a variety of techniques that should cover any situation that one might incur in the office.

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    Christy Lottinger & Julie McNeish

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Lottinger, C., McNeish, J. (2019). Local Anesthesia. In: Ferneini, E., Goupil, M. (eds) Office-Based Maxillofacial Surgical Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22371-7_4

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