Why does getting the numbing injection for a filling in the front of your mouth !
Question:
Why does getting the numbing injection for a filling in the front of your mouth hurt so damn much?
ouch....feels like the needle is coming through your eye
Answers:
It depends on a practitioner's technique.. If you jab in the needle so that it scrapes along the bone surface (into the periosteum) where there isn't much expansile tissue to accommodate the injected fluid, it's going to hurt.
The technique I learned when doing infiltration in the maxilla is to insert the needle, and back off just a teeny bit when I feel it hit bone so I am not injecting into the periosteum, aspirate, then inject. This way my patients feel only the pinch of the needle and not excruciating pain. :-D
Maxillary infiltration in the vestibules is pretty much the easiest local anesthesia technique to do.