Local Anesthesia: From Complications to Success
Saturday, January 31, 2026
8:00 – 11:00 am
Course Code:
801SL
Room:
MCEC Room 102 B
Cost:
$135
Credits:
3
CE Hours
This course covers topics including: pharmacology of local anesthesia, chemistry, formulation, physiology, local anesthetics and infected tissue and buffering: causes of injection pain: measuring and achieving anesthetic success, failures and consequences of failed anesthetic, how to eliminate certain types of failures: real time course of analgesia in dentistry, anesthetic performance background, clinical data review of time course of analgesia, impact of time course to the daily practices, products that improve the time course of analgesia; and both local and systemic complications of anesthetic injections in dentistry.
Speakers
After this course attendees will be able to:
- Explain the pharmacology of local anesthesia
- Understand injection pain and its implications
- Describe the causes of local anesthetic complications
- Properly diagnose the causes of local anesthetic complications
- Treatment plan and effectively manage local anesthetic complications
- List systemic complications related to local anesthesia
- Implement steps necessary to have comfortable success with the delivery of local anesthesia
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