Postanesthetic ulceration of palate: A rare complication

• DOI: 10.4103/0975-5950.196142
• Publication Date: 2017-01-16T10:52:26Z
• Authors: Ramesh Gupta; Meenu Garg; Salil Pawah; Ajay Gupta
• Keywords: Soft palate; Hard palate; Blood supply

The routine dental practice involves various procedures which needs the application of local anesthetics. Generally, there are very few complications associated with these procedures. Complications such as tissue necrosis can occur following rapid injection anesthetic solutions. Palate is a favorable site for soft lesions, factors direct effects drug, blanching tissues during injection, relatively poor blood supply, and reactivation latent forms herpes all promote to ischemia lesion in palate.