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Local anaesthetics are the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in dentistry. When used at the recommended doses, they interfere reversibly with the generation of the action potential and with cellular impulse conduction by blockading the sodium channels in the nerve cell. This results in a local insensibility to pain stimuli.
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Frankhuijzen, A.L. (2017). Pharmacology of Local Anaesthetics. In: Baart, J., Brand, H. (eds) Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43705-7_3
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