Pain and Anxiety Control for the Concious Dental Patient

Anatomy & physiology of pain transmission; pharmacology of dental local anaesthesia; local anaesthetic drugs; local anaesthetic equipment; tropical anaesthesia; basic principles of dental local anaesthetic injections; local anaesthesia in the maxilla; local anaesthesia in the mandible; intraligamentary, intraosseous, and intrapulpal anaesthesia; management of failed local anaesthesia; local anaesthesia contraindications and complications; nonpharmacological methods of pain control; conscious sedation in dentistry; the pharmacology of sedative agents; oral sedation and premedication; transmucosal sedation; inhalation sedation; intravenous sedation; polypharmacy sedation in dentistry; monitoring the sedated dental patient; medicolegal aspects of the practice of sedation in dentistry; analgesics in dentistry.