Who remembers stab-lab in dental school? How about injecting your first real patients?
Trying to achieve that "painless" ideal … the topical … the perfect bevel angle … the slow insertion, shaking cheeks ... but does the perfect, completely painless injection actually exist every single time?
What if it could?
Let's talk shop: Buffering our anesthesia is legit! I even stab-labbed myself to feel the difference.
About the Author
David R. Rice, DDS
Chief editor
Founder of the nation’s largest student and new-dentist community, igniteDDS, David R. Rice, DDS, travels the world speaking, writing, and connecting today’s top young dentists with tomorrow’s most successful dental practices. He is the editorial director of DentistryIQ and leads a team-centered restorative and implant practice in East Amherst, New York. With 27 years of practice in the books, Dr. Rice is trained at the Pankey Institute, the Dawson Academy, Spear Education, and most prolifically at the school of hard knocks. Contact him at [email protected].