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Can you tell me what dentists use now to take the place of novocaine?
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Novacainereplacement: Lidocaine\xylocaine and carbocaine\mepivicaine are probably the two most widely used and popular local anesthetics used by dentists nowadays.
Answered 12/29/2013
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Long out of favor : Dentists stopped using novacaine (procaine) in the 50s/60s because of the high incidence of allergy and development better tolerated anesthetics like lidocaine. More recently, other anesthetics have been developed like prilocaine , bupivucaine, articaine, et al. --which to use is dependent upon the duration of numbness desired.
Answered 12/29/2013
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Many things: If you worried about pain from the needle, there are many new devices and techniques that replaces the normal conventional injection ..
Answered 5/1/2014
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