“What type of anesthesia is used for dental bone graft?”
I will have a dental bone graft. What type of anesthesia is used for dental bone graft?
5 Answers
For situations in which a dental bone graft is necessary, local anesthesia is sufficient to ensure you as a patient will not experience pain.
It depends on the treating dentist and the procedure itself. If it is a large case I use long lasting anesthetic like Marcaine but for a single tooth I may use Lidocaine with epinephrine.
Usually Lidocaine 2% 1:100k epi is standard
Anesthesia is the same as extraction. For example, if your doctor gives local anesthesia (shot) for the extraction, no need to give more because the bone grafting procedure is not usually any more painful than the extraction, in fact, it's less painful. The only uncomfortable part of the process is the manipulation of the gum tissue to tuck the membrane that holds the bone graft in place. Bone had very few nerves, gum tissue had lots of nerves.
Generally, you get local anesthetic at the site and general anesthetic too.
