Product Overview
An invaluable text and a one-of-a-kind how-to DVD. This unique text and DVD package brings the latest advances in the science, technology, and techniques of local anesthesia to life like nothing you've ever seen before!
- Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 5th Edition gives you:
- Comprehensive information on the pros and cons of articaine, the highly debated local anesthetic recently approved by the FDA, that has gained widespread use in the United States.
- Discussions on the latest armamentaria that reflect the newest drugs and devices - including safety syringes and computer-controlled local anesthetic delivery systems.
- Updated step-by-step instructions for the various techniques of administering intraoral anesthesia - extensively illustrated in full color.
- The 2003 CDC Hand Hygiene Guidelines.
- Handy boxes and tables that compare new and standing techniques, drugs, and dosages.
- Dosage charts, injection techniques, information on duration of action, and contraindications for local anesthetics.
- A new chapter on Legal Considerations that examines possible complications related to anesthetic administration and discusses the standard of care with regard to appropriate prevention and treatment.
- Malamed's Local Anesthesia Administration DVD gives you:
- Unique how-to coverage of core local anesthesia topics: local anesthetic agents, anesthetic injection techniques, potential complications, and risk management.
- Demonstrations of every possible kind of injection encountered in the clinical setting - a first in the field!
- High quality video clips and animations so you can see exactly how to administer each anesthetic agent.
- Organization that follows the 5th edition of Handbook of Local Anesthesia - so you can read about key concepts in the book and then watch concepts come to life on screen for a deeper understanding.
- Personal commentary from Dr. Stanley Malamed throughout - with tips and secrets gained through years of clinical experience and painstaking research into the contemporary practice of dental anesthesia.
- The opportunity to earn 4 hours of ADA- and AGD-certified CDE.
- Malamed's Local Anesthesia Administration DVD lets you see how to perform all these injections!
- Posterior superior alveolar (PSA) nerve block
- Middle superior alveolar (MSA) nerve block
- Anterior superior alveolar (ASA) nerve block
- Greater palatine nerve block
- Nasopalatine nerve block
- Palatal infiltration
- Anterior middle superior alveolar (AMSA) nerve block
- Palatal approach-anterior superior alveolar (P-ASA) injection
- Maxillary nerve block
- Inferior alveolar nerve block
- Buccal nerve block
- Mandibular nerve block (Gow-Gates)
- Vazirani-Akinosi closed-mouth mandibular nerve block
- Mental nerve block
- Incisive nerve block
- Periodontal ligament injection
- Intraseptal injection
- Intraosseus injection
