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Dental anaesthesia in the emergency department
  1. Hans Antov1,
  2. Mohamed Suida2
  1. 1 Maxillofacial Surgery, Pinderfields Hospital, Leeds, UK
  2. 2 Maxillofacial Surgery, Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hans Antov, Maxillofacial Surgery, Pinderfields Hospital, Leeds WF1 4DG, UK; hansantov{at}yahoo.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2019-208522

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    Dear Editor,

    We recently organised a teaching session for emergency medicine trainees, centred on oral and maxillofacial surgery. A topic they found beneficial was how to administer local anaesthetic for dental pain. We believe readership of the EMJ may also be interested in this technique.

    Dental pain is a common reason for attending the emergency department.1 Unless the patient has a severe abscess, often little treatment can be …

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    • Contributors All authors have contributed equally to this project.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    • Patient consent for publication Obtained.