Anesthesia Videos

How to give a PSA injection.

How to give a PSA on the right side of the mouth.

Here is another view of the PSA injection technique with a few facial land marks to help you get the correct angles.

How to give the anterior superior alveolar injection.

Hygienists need to know how to give a greater palatine injection or most of the time called a palatal. I will often time have the dentist ask me to give one prior to crown preparations or extractions.

If the dentist is doing a filling on any maxillary teeth all you have to do is a local infiltration above the specific tooth to get it numb. Here is how to do it, demonstrated on #8.

How to give the long buccal Injection.

There are times when I have given an ASA, and a local infiltration and the one area is still painful to the patient. In this case I will give a PDL injection right in the area that the patient is feeling the instrumentation. I use this as a last resort if nothing else has worked.

How to give a nasopalatine injection. It will anesthetize the palatal tissues of the six anterior teeth.

How to give a mental injection.

How to give an MSA injection.

Have you ever had a patient that wont get numb on the IA injection. Try this technique next time. This tip was given to us by an endodontist who has many patients referred to him because they can't get numb.

When you have given a local and a block, and the patient is still feeling pain during the procedure, try giving an injection into the papilla right where the pain is being felt.