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What is more painful in a tongue biopsy? the actual procedure? or the pain after the local anesthetic wears off?and how painful is it on a scale from 1 to 10
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Depends on details: If the patient is very calm and cooperative, the doctor may be able to use numbing gel to numb up the tongue where he or she will inject anesthetic. Then, the biopsy shouldn't hurt. It probably will hurt afterwards, when the anesthesia wears off. Putting numbing gel on it afterwards makes it easy to unintentionally bite the same spot... which is probably not going to help things.
Answered 12/4/2019
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