1. Hypersensitivity to Benzocaine or other ester-type local anesthetics

2. Local anesthetics may block impulse replication in mid-axon.

3. Benzocaine belongs to a group of medicines known as topical local anesthetics

4. Anyway, so there are two classes of local Anesthetics - called esters and amides.

5. True allergic reactions to Amide local anesthetics are extremely rare but have been documented

6. True allergic reactions to amide local Anesthetics are extremely rare but have been documented.

7. Allergic reactions to local Anesthetics are often attributed to additives such as metabisulfite or methylparaben

8. Local Anesthetics, Amides: Dosing, Uses, Side Effects, Interactions, Patient Handouts, Pricing and more from Medscape Reference

9. Adverse reactions to local Anesthetics are usually a reaction to epinephrine, vasovagal syncope, or overdose toxicity

10. Local Anesthetics (LAs) are drugs that block the sensation of pain in the region where they are administered

11. Pain perceived during mini-implant removal was relatively slight and not much affected by the use of local anesthetics.

12. The common suffix for local Anesthetics is -caine, like procaine, tetracaine, lidocaine, Michael Caine - no wait, that’s the actor.

13. Also, ester-type local anesthetics such as Benzocaine are metabolized to para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) and should not be used in patients with …

14. Patients with true allergy to Amide local anesthetics present a challenge to the dental practitioner in providing adequate care with appropriate intraoperative pain management

15. Local Anesthetics are medications used to reversibly block pain sensation in a specific part of the body in order to perform small surgical procedures.

16. Local Anesthetics are different in the fact that they only block pain sensation in a specific part of the body, and don’t affect consciousness

17. Along with lidocaine and other local anesthetics, Benzocaine has marked it as an anesthetic agent in surgical procedures and as Na+ channels blocker, as well

18. Dentists can also prescribe medications such as antibiotics, fluorides, pain killers, local anesthetics, sedatives/hypnotics and any other medications that serve in the treatment of the various conditions that arise in the head and neck.

19. Anesthetics, at sufficient concentrations, can completely block action potential generation and conduction “differential nerve blockade” –nerve fibres differ markedly in their susceptiblity to conduction blockage by local Anesthetics (this is the basis of their clinical …

20. The equipment necessary for the administration of local anesthetics and for the extraction of the tooth introduced in armamentarium Armamentaria have evolved to ease surgery ,shortening on table time, widening the surgical field, increasing visibility,mimimizing trauma to surgical areas etc

21. However, an alternative approach to treatment is to dampen the Afferently mediated reflex, either by using intravesical local anesthetics (see Fowler13 for a review of intravesical treatments) or intravesical vanilloids, such as capsaicin or resiniferatoxin (RTX), which are neurotoxic for the emergent C-fibers.13