A comparison of a refrigerant and a topical anesthetic gel as preinjection anesthetics A clinical evaluation

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-72

  Kosaraju, Amar ^a   Vandewalle, Kraig S ^b  

^a Boiling Air Force Base ^*  (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthetics; Local anesthetics; Pain measurement; Palate; Topical anesthetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249096435     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2009.0020     Document Type: Article

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