I'm having a local anesthetic for six fillings...?!

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Your research is correct, a local anesthetic (commonly Novocain aka Procaine) blocks channels in your nerves which send the "pain" message to your brain. You are also conscious and thus the procedure it much less risky and you are able to get up and leave right after your appointment.

Do not worry about pain at the dentist. Dentistry is pain free. The first thing that they will do is look at the x-rays of your teeth and also do a visual inspection. When they are ready to start your dentists will put a gel on your gums. This gel is a topical anesthetic, they give it a few minutes to work and then they will inject you with the local anesthetic. The reason they put the gel on is it stops you from feeling the needle and thus is another reason why it is a painless procedure. Nothing will happen to your body's ability to function. You will be able to move, hear, speak. It also does not affect your brains ability to process information.

The local anaesthetic will make one of your bottom sides numb, including your tongue. On the top just a small section and a bit of your lip and cheek may be numb as well. The local anesthetic last quite a few hours, but this is dependent on your system and how fast your system can process the medication.

Keeping your mouth open is not that hard, some dentists also have a rubber thing which they can put in between your teeth in order to keep your mouth open. This is usually not a problem and it is not much work to keep your mouth open. Afterwards you will be pretty n ormal, speaking might be a little weird but this is only for a short amount of time (a few hours), No one will even know the difference.

For the procedure. I have gone over the beginning with them looking looking at your x-rays, a visual inspection, and then also freezing (numbing) your mouth. The dentist will clean the area if necessary. From there, they will drill into your tooth and get rid of any bacteria, or decay. From there, they will make sure it is clean and start filling it up. This can be done 2 ways:

Directly: this is a filling. Basically your dentist will use a bunch of different materials to build up your tooth. Then they will shape your tooth again that it is properly functional and anatomically correct.

Indirectly: this is done with a crown (cap). This will take 1-2 appointment to do (not as common). Please see the source about crowns.

To end off your dentist will make sure that there are no "sharp" edges. If there are any they will get rid of them to make your teeth perfect. From there they will polish your teeth to make them shiny and also smooth. From there your dentist will give you any further instructions necessary.

One important thing is to make sure that you do not have any hot drinks like coffee or tea after. As well you need to make sure that you do not bite your tongue. The reason is because your mouth is numb and connect feel pain.

Please see the sources below for more information. You are always free to speak to your oral health care professional about your concerns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procaine
http://www.cda-adc.ca/en/oral_health/pro…
http://www.cda-adc.ca/en/oral_health/pro…

probably just inject you in your mouth around each tooth....it only numbs the area they are working on... Yes every other part of your body will be abe to move.. You hear EVERYTHING,, I would have asked to be put out *L*


Local anesthesia is any technique to render part of the body insensitive to pain without affecting consciousness. It allows patients to undergo surgical and dental procedures with reduced pain and distress.

They jus numb the area that where your getting the fillings at, your totally consious and can move and evrything, aftrwards that area will be numb for a few hours!

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they inject you quite a few times I'm sorry to say- around 3/4 injections. I had 11 injections for four teeth because I could still feel the pain as the anaesthetic wasn't strong enough for me, but hopefully that won't happen to you. I assure you that the injections don't hurt because they put a numbing cream on your gum before they inject. then they just use a clamp to pull your tooth out. I recommend you take an iPod and listen to music when you do this so you don't hear the noises and it relaxes you. just shut your eyes and put your earphones in throughout the whole procedure and It will be fine. however, they may use a special anaesthetic on you where you won't be able to remember what happened afterwards because your having so many pulled out at one time.