Stanley Malamed
Local anesthetics: dentistry’s most important drugs | Is the ‘mandibular block’ passe?
- Dentist anesthesiologist and emeritus professor of dentistry at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, located in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry (now the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of U.S.C).
- He retired from full-time teaching at the university in 2013.
- He has authored more than 170 scientific papers and 17 chapters in various medical and dental journals and textbooks in the areas of physical evaluation, emergency medicine, local anesthesia, sedation and general anesthesia.
- In addition, he is the author of three widely used textbooks, published by CV Mosby: Handbook of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (8th edition 2022); Handbook of Local Anesthesia (7th edition 2020); and Sedation – a guide to patient management (6th edition 2017) and two interactive DVD’s: Emergency Medicine (3rd edition, 2018) and Malamed’s Local Anesthetic Technique DVD (2004) (edition 2 – 2012). The textbooks have been translated into 22 foreign-language editions.
Nationality: USA
Scientific areas: Anesthesiology
11 of november, from 14h30 until 19h00
Auditorium B
Conference summary
02:30 – 04:00 PM
Local anesthetics: dentistry’s most important drugs
Pain control is an essential part of all dental treatment. Local anesthetics represent the most effective and safest (used properly) in medicine for the prevention and management of peri and post-operative pain.
Professor Malamed will review the currently available local anesthetics and discuss how to make local anesthesia both more effective and more comfortable.
In –depth discussions include articaine, buffering of local anesthetics (the local anesthetic ‘on-switch’), and phentolamine (the local anesthetic ‘off switch’).
05:30 – 07:00
Is the ‘mandibular block’ passe?
The traditional ‘mandibular nerve block’ has one of the lowest success rates of major nerve blocks administered in the human body. Is it – in 2023 – necessary for a dentist to continue to use this technique? Techniques, such as the Gow-Gates mandibular nerve block;
Akinosi-Vazirani closed mouth mandibanesthesiaular nerve block; intraosseous anesthesia; periodontal ligament injection (PDL) and intraseptal techniques have been developed in an effort to improve success in the mandible and are reviewed.
The program will conclude with recommendations for more successful mandibular anesthesia.