The efficacy of six local anesthetic formulations used for posterior mandibular buccal infiltration anesthesia

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1018-1024

  Abdulwahab, Mohammad ^a   Boynes, Sean ^a   Moore, Paul ^a   Seifikar, Shahrooz ^a   Al Jazzaf, Abdulazlz ^a   Alshuraidah, Abdullah ^a   Zovko, Jayme ^a   Close, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidocaine; Local anesthetics; Mandible; Molar

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749119201     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2009.0313     Document Type: Article

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