“Can you eat before dental anesthesia?”

Always better to be fasting at least 4 hour for solid food if you are healthy and 2 hours for clear liquid.

The risk of eating before any anesthetic relates to the ability of your laryngeal reflexes to be adequately intact to prevent gastric contents from entering the trachea and damaging the lung tissue. When you are sedated with medications it is always possible that you may vomit or reflux gastric contents (particularly if you have GERD, heart-burn or are overweight). If your airway protection mechanism, the larynx, is also anesthetized; those stomach juices and food my enter the lung. Hence, I recommend not eating solid food 6 hours before a dental general anesthetic. This should not be affected by the local anesthesia which the dentist injects into your gum or the nerves which supply your teeth.

Michael Urban, MD, PhD

No. Reason is risk of vomiting and aspirating the food into your lungs which can cause death or other problems.

From Christopher Creighton

No.

You should follow the recommendations of your provider, but generally no solid foods 8 hrs prior

No. You should be fasting 8 hrs.