This award-winning videotape reveals a lavish combination of clincal images and three-dimensional computer-simulated perspectives to show proper techniques and depict local anesthesia's physiologic effect on the nerve. Criteria for choosing anesthetics and the associated risk factors and complications are also addressed. Truly making the invisible visible, this video is a must for education on local anesthesia. Video, 30 minutes; Book, 166 pages; 55 color illustrations. Author(s)/Editor(s): Lipp, Markus D.W Author(s)/Editor(s): Lipp, Markus D.W

Contents:
Book:
1. Theoretical Foundations
2. The History of Local Anesthesia
3. Preparations for Local Anesthesia
4. Selection of the Suitable Local Anesthetic
5. Techniques of Local Anesthesia
6. Instrumentation
7. Side Effects of Local Anesthesia
8. Monitoring
9. Associated Systemic Medication
10. References
11. Index
Video:
Selected topics include:
1. The ideal local anesthetic
2. Mechanisms of systemic effects
3. Techniques of local anesthesia
Infiltration anesthesia
Nerve block
Intraligamental anesthesia
4. Clinical criteria for choosing local anesthetics
5. Risk factors
6. Side effects and complications