Occular complications following dental local anesthesia

2010

Objective: To determine the frequencyof appearance and the factors most commonlyassociated with ocular complications following dental local anesthesia, also establishing the location and type of anesthesia used. StudyDesign: An indexed search in the Pubmed and Compludoc databases was carried out with the keywords "oral anesthesia", "ocular", "ophthalmologic", "damage", "complications", "injection". We established a limitation that the literature had to have been published after the year 1970. A total of 19 articles were obtained, forming a total sample of 37 patients. The patient's sex, age, nerve anesthetized, type of anesthetic used, ophthalmological complication present, recoverytime, tr…