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Wei Cheong Ngeow

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ANESTHESIA; INJECTION; AMAUROSIS; ANATOMY

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Numbness Of The Ear Following Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block: The Forgotten Complication, W.C. Ngeow, W. L. Chai Jul 2009

Numbness Of The Ear Following Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block: The Forgotten Complication, W.C. Ngeow, W. L. Chai

Wei Cheong Ngeow

This article presents a distant complication in the auricle following the administration of a standard inferior alveolar nerve block. The patient experienced profound numbness of the auricle on the ipsilateral side of the injection that lasted for about an hour following unintended injection to the auriculotemporal nerve.

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