More pain before root canal, less to gain from anesthesia

Sunday, Nov. 5th 2023 6:35 AM

A study in the current issue of the journal Anesthesia Progress looked at whether a patient’s level of pain before a root canal changed the effectiveness of local anesthesia. The research showed that the more active pain a patient felt before the procedure, the lower the pain threshold was for that patient during surgery.

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