Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Anesthesia plays a paramount role in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Number of local anesthesia techniques has been introduced for surgical procedures of maxilla and mandible. Maxillary local anesthesia blocks are performed intraoral as peripheral nerve blocks or they can be given extraoraly to anesthetize the maxillary nerve at the foramen rotundum. Intraoral techniques are used routinely in day to day practices but due to their complication and number of injections for a single procedure as in case of maxilla, extra –oral technique have been introduced in literature. Extraoral nerve block techniques for maxillary nerve include suprazygomatic and infrazygomatic nerve block