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Transient diplopia in dental outpatient clinic: An uncommon iatrogenic event
| Title: | Transient diplopia in dental outpatient clinic: An uncommon iatrogenic event |
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| Authors: | Balaji S |
| Source: | Indian Journal of Dental Research, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 132-134 (2010) |
| Publisher Information: | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2010. |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Collection: | LCC:Dentistry |
| Subject Terms: | Diplopia, lignocaine, ocular complication of intraoral local anesthetic, Dentistry, RK1-715 |
| More Details: | A healthy 32-year-old female patient required an extraction of the right maxillary third molar. Lidocaine containing 1:80,000 epinephrine for right posterior superior alveolar nerve block was administered in the mucobuccal fold above the third molar to be extracted at our hospital. After few minutes of posterior superior alveolar block anesthesia, patient felt double vision. The condition was subsequently diagnosed as transient diplopia due to temporary paralysis of lateral rectus muscle due to involvement of the VI cranial nerve. The patient recovered in 30 minutes and the treatment was performed successfully. This article discusses the possible scientific explanation for this phenomenon. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 0970-9290 1998-3603 |
| Relation: | http://www.ijdr.in/article.asp?issn=0970-9290;year=2010;volume=21;issue=1;spage=132;epage=134;aulast=Balaji; https://doaj.org/toc/0970-9290; https://doaj.org/toc/1998-3603 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/7a4ebc5df26a4a0aa5d35a8413abfe66 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.7a4ebc5df26a4a0aa5d35a8413abfe66 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 09709290 19983603 |
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| Published in: | Indian Journal of Dental Research |
| Language: | English |