Naaldbreuk tijdens het geven van lokale anesthesie
DOI: 10.5177/ntvt.2018.11.18185 Bladzijden: 587-590Needle breakage during local anaesthesia
Two patients were referred to a maxillofacial surgeon in connection with the occurrence of needle breakage during local anaesthesia. In the first case, of a 67-year-old woman, it concerned a needle breakage after giving mandibular block anaesthesia. The needle could be removed quite easily under local anaesthesia. The second case concerned a less cooperative 8 year old patient, in whom after intraosseous anaesthesia with Quicksleeper 5, the dentist decided to use the same 9 mm needle to administer a supplementary buccal infiltration. During the latter intervention the needle, unfortunately, broke. After exact localisation by means of cone beam computerised tomography, the 9 mm size needle was removed under general anaesthesia with some difficulty.
Needle breakage during local anaesthesia
Two patients were referred to a maxillofacial surgeon in connection with the occurrence of needle breakage during local anaesthesia. In the first case, of a 67-year-old woman, it concerned a needle breakage after giving mandibular block anaesthesia. The needle could be removed quite easily under local anaesthesia. The second case concerned a less cooperative 8 year old patient, in whom after intraosseous anaesthesia with Quicksleeper 5, the dentist decided to use the same 9 mm needle to administer a supplementary buccal infiltration. During the latter intervention the needle, unfortunately, broke. After exact localisation by means of cone beam computerised tomography, the 9 mm size needle was removed under general anaesthesia with some difficulty.