dental disorders
How To Do an Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block
Indications
A painful mandibular condition or its treatment, such as Fracture (of mandibular bone, alveolar ridge, teeth) Caries None Postextraction alveolitis (dry socket) None Complications (only if the abscess is distant from the nerve block site) Laceration (mucosa, lower lip, skin of chin)* * A nerve block may be preferred to local anesthetic infiltration when accurate approximation of wound edges is important (eg, skin or lip repair), because a nerve block does not distort the tissue as does local infiltration. 