- 21. How Dental Implants Work in Shanghai
- (Dental Shanghai)
- ... process requires a great deal of skill and knowledge on a dental professionals’ part as they are operating in confined space. Surgery is then done at the dental office using a local anesthetic, unless ...
- 22. Dental Advice for Pregnant Women in Shanghai
- (Dental Shanghai)
- ... child. Thus, the best is to be careful, and to keep the level of medication as low as possible. • Anesthetics: The most commonly used dental anesthetic is lidocaine, which is known to cross the ...
- 23. How to Fix a Gummy Smile
- (Dental Shanghai)
- ... (done under local anesthetic) the gum tissue is contoured around each individual tooth, with the tissue being lifted off the bone and placed in the desired new position using sutures. Healing takes seven ...
- 24. What Happens to Your Teeth When They Go Numb?
- (Dental Shanghai)
- ... What Does an Anesthetic Contain? The most common anesthetic in use today is a sedative called lidocaine. This is the modern replacement for procaine and Novocain which both tended to hang around the ...
- 25. What Happens to Your Teeth When They Get Filled?
- (Dental Shanghai)
- ... prevent tooth fragments from entering the throat. The dentist will also insert a small hose that will suck your saliva to keep the mouth clean. Once this is set, the dentist will rub sum anesthetic ointment ...
- 26. Broken wrist/broken hand
- (Broken wrist/broken hand )
- ... even a general anesthetic before this procedure. Immobilization Restricting the movement of a broken bone in your wrist or hand is critical to proper healing. To do this, you may need a splint or a cast. ...
- 27. Wegener's granulomatosis
- (Wegener's granulomatosis)
- ... outpatient setting using a numbing medication (local anesthetic). Others, such as an open-lung biopsy, may require hospitalization. With early diagnosis and appropriate treatment, you may recover ...
- 28. Common warts
- (Common warts)
- ... the injection of anesthetic given before this surgery can be painful, and the surgery may leave a scar. For these reasons, surgery is usually reserved for warts that haven't responded to other therapies. ...
- 29. Osteomyelitis
- (Osteomyelitis)
- ... anesthetics to numb the area where the needle is inserted. The most common treatments for osteomyelitis are antibiotics and surgery to remove portions of bone that are infected or dead. Medications ...
- 30. Drug Appendix
- (Substance Abuse)
- ... oxide, found in whipped-cream cans and car fuel, is used medically as a general anesthetic. Slang terms for nitrous oxide include: laughing gas, whippets, shoot the breeze, buzz, grocery-store high, ...
- 31. Molluscum contagiosum
- (Molluscum contagiosum)
- ... for molluscum contagiosum can be painful, so an anesthetic might be administered beforehand to lessen discomfort. Sometimes a combination of treatments may be used. Medications In some cases, prescription ...
- 32. Breastfeeding After Cesarean Delivery
- (Breastfeeding)
- ... the infant. You will probably receive a regional anesthetic, such as an epidural, rather than the general anesthesia that once made women unconscious during the delivery. Since less regional anesthesia ...
- 33. Delivery: What About the Pain?
- (Delivery and Beyond)
- ... back. If an episiotomy (surgical incision in vaginal area) is needed to ease the baby’s head through the birth canal, a local anesthetic is injected ahead of time to make the area numb. Local anesthetics ...
- 34. Delivery by Cesarean Section
- (Delivery and Beyond)
- ... labor at all. Another important difference is the need to use medication that affects the mother and may affect the baby. If given a choice of anesthetic, most women prefer to have a regional anesthesia—an ...
- 35. Menorrhagia
- (Menorrhagia)
- ... done on an outpatient basis. Although you may need a general anesthetic, it's likely that you can go home later on the same day. When menorrhagia is a sign of another condition, such as thyroid disease, ...
- 36. Broken arm
- (Broken arm)
- ... called reduction. Depending on the amount of pain and swelling you have, you may need a muscle relaxant, a sedative or even a general anesthetic before this procedure. Immobilization Restricting the ...
- 37. Obstructive sleep apnea
- (Obstructive sleep apnea)
- ... structures from vibrating and causing snoring. UPPP usually is performed in a hospital and requires a general anesthetic. Jaw surgery. In this procedure, called maxillomandibular advancement, the upper ...
- 38. Sleep apnea
- (Sleep apnea)
- ... and requires a general anesthetic. Removing tissues in the back of your throat with a laser (laser-assisted uvulopalatoplasty) isn't a recommended treatment for sleep apnea. Radiofrequency energy (radiofrequency ...
- 39. Broken ankle/broken foot
- (Broken ankle/broken foot)
- ... or even a general anesthetic before this procedure. Immobilization. To heal, a broken bone must be immobilized so that its ends can knit back together. In most cases, this requires a cast. Minor foot ...
- 40. Carotid angioplasty and stenting
- (Carotid angioplasty and stenting)
- ... artery are taken. Your groin is shaved and prepared with antiseptic solution, and a sterile drape is placed over your body. A local anesthetic is injected into your groin to numb the area. Small ...
