title: The assessment of anesthetic efficacy of ropivacaine in oral surgery.
abstract: This paper describes the application of ropivacaine, local, amid, long-acting anesthetic in oral surgery. For infiltrative anesthesia, 0.75% of Naropin (ropivacaine) was used in eight patients undergoing various operations (maxillary sinus with oro-antral communication, extraction of upper and lower impacted wisdom teeth, cystectomy, apicoectomy and tooth extraction). The achieved anesthesia in all patients enabled analgesia in the course of the operation, and the expected intraoperative and postoperative bleeding, whereas postoperative analgesia lasted long enough (up to 380 minutes) to prevent the intake of analgesics. Side effects or local reaction on ropivacaine were not detected.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Stomatology, Department of Oral Surgery, Nis, Serbia.
authors.forename: Nikola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buric
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000577:Amides / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000766:Anesthesia, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D000779:Anesthetics, Local / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D001047:Apicoectomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009957:Oroantral Fistula / Q000601:surgery; D011842:Radicular Cyst / Q000601:surgery; D000077212:Ropivacaine; D014081:Tooth Extraction; D014095:Tooth, Impacted / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D000779:Anesthetics, Local; D000077212:Ropivacaine