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What are the side effects of the dentist's local anesthesia?

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Here are a few: The most common are elevated heart rate, extended numbness, and bruising. There are less well known ones but the commercials on tv have a list of about one hundred that they have a speed reader rattle off for most other drugs, so in general it's pretty safe.

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Answered 6/9/2018

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