The management of inferior dental nerve blocks in different educational levels of dental clinic students Dr. Rene Puig Bentz, Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University.

In dentistry, the use of anesthesia is of utmost importance for most of the
procedures performed in this branch of health, which can be applied locally
or generally, depending on the complexity of the case. The most commonly
used anesthesia techniques in dentistry are trunk and infiltrative, with the
trunk technique being the one that is most often complicated for various
reasons: the location and position that the anesthetic cartridge must have,
and the anatomical area that is usually difficult to palpate when placing the
needle. This research was conducted by assessing each student according
to their level of clinical training while performing the inferior alveolar nerve
technique; a questionnaire was administered, and observations were made
during their practice. This study was observational and descriptive with a
cross-sectional design, focused on the inferior alveolar nerve blocking
technique by students in the dental clinic. In general, 95.4% of the students
believe the predominant symptoms after the anesthesia was administered
to the inferior alveolar nerve are tingling and numbness. It was also
observed that there is a positive relationship between the level of safety and
the clinical level, meaning that at a higher clinical level, there is better safety
in performing the block of the inferior alveolar nerve. In the case of clinical
levels VI and VII, the good safety percentages are 43.5% and 58.6%
respectively. It was determined that the success rate in execution is 58% for
clinical I, 54% for clinical II, 34% for clinical III, 77% for clinical IV, 87% for
clinical V, 74% for clinical VI, and 76% for clinical VII. As a result, the level of
theoretical knowledge in each of the clinics is 54.8% for clinical I, 48.4% for
clinical II, 47.6% for clinical III, 56.5% for clinical IV, 57.6% for clinical V,
58.4% for clinical VI, and 55.7% for clinical VII. And for the level of practical
knowledge, it was 73.6% for clinical I, 62.8% for clinical II, 70.84 for clinical
III, 68.1% for clinical IV, and 70.6% for clinical V, clinic VI, 78.7 clinic VII.