title: Anesthetic Efficacy of 4 % Articaine During Extraction of the Mandibular Posterior Teeth by Using Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block and Buccal Infiltration Techniques.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The study was designed to evaluate the anesthetic efficacy of 4 % articaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine (A100) in infiltration and inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) anesthetic techniques for the pain control during extraction of the mandibular posterior teeth.
  
  
  METHODS
  This prospective randomized single-blind clinical trial included 100 patients needing extraction of at least two mandibular molars. Patients received either infiltration in the buccal vestibule opposite to the first molar supplemented with lingual infiltration or standard IANB with A100. For assessment of depth of anesthesia obtained by the two anaethetic techniques, presence or absence of pain during the extraction were rated using the visual analog scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifty patients received infiltration anesthesia and fifty patients were anesthetized by IANB. The success rate of pain-free extraction after buccal infiltration was 94 %, whereas by using IANB with the same anesthetic it was 92 %. No statistical differences were detected in the success rates between the two anesthetic techniques (P= 0.15).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Buccal Infiltration can be considered a good option during extraction of the mandibular molar and premolar teeth of course, with supplemental lingual anesthesia.
authors.affiliation: Ain-Shames University Hospitals, Cario, Egypt ; Oral Surgery Department, Ibn Sina College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, 21418 Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Khalid E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: El-Kholey
keywords: Articaine; Extraction; Infiltration; Mandibular molars; Nerve block