Regional Anesthesia for Dental Procedures

Adjuncts to injectable and inhalant anesthetics have been used to produce analgesia and decrease the amount of general anesthetic necessary to maintain surgical planes of anesthesia. The minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) is used as a standard measure to evaluate the effect of analgesic drugs or adjunct techniques on inhalant anesthetic requirements. The MAC of an inhalant is defined as the minimum steady state alveolar concentration of an inhalation anesthetic required to prevent gross purposeful movement to a noxious stimulus in 50% of patients.
Source: Advances in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery - Category: Veterinary Research Tags: Dentistry Source Type: research