Armamentarium and Injections

Introduction

This module focuses on the armamentarium used when administering local anesthesia. The module is designed to provide you with the knowledge essential to the selection, care and handling of the armamentarium used to administer local anesthesia.

In addition, the module details the injections of the maxillary and mandibular arch, including structures innervated, landmarks, insertion site and depth of insertion. Because the techniques needed to perform local anesthetic injections are depend on accurate visualization of landmarks in order to insert in the correct location to obtain profound anesthesia, viewing the videos is imperative.

Objectives

Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

Readings

Chapter 9 Armamentarium/Syringe Preparation

Chapter 11 Basic Injection Techniques

Chapter 12 Maxillary Nerve Anesthesia

Chapter 13 Mandibular Nerve Anesthesia

Assignments