Local anesthetic

An 18-year-old Asian female presented for treatment at Missouri Southern State University Dental Hygiene clinic. The medical history reveals the patient had an ovarian benign tumor that was removed in 2003. The patient was under general anesthesia during the surgery and experienced no complications. Also, the patient has a diagnosis of low blood pressure. Another medical condition that the patient has is Dysautonomia, which is a dysfunction of the autonomic system. A contraindication for this…

As children, we are all afraid of something. It may be bugs, clowns, or even the dentist. Walking into an unfamiliar place knowing that they are going to be moving tools around the inside of your mouth with you virtually having no control of. Those tools that make loud humming noises and can drill into your teeth or the side of your cheek with one mistaken shake of the head or twitch of the arm. As children we develop this fear that carries over into our older years. We stop visiting the…

Learning Objectives: After this, physicians should be able to Understand the importance of dealing with ketamine abuse Identify physical signs and behavioral changes in young adults abusing ketamine · Help family members deal with the patient and get them proper treatment Case Presentation: A 17 year-old female patient comes into the doctor's office for the usual check-up with her mother. The patient has complaints of painful urination and an intense pain in the abdomen that…

Stiff by Mary Roach Stiff by Mary Roach is a book comprised of several anecdotes of the lives of cadavers covering everything from testing the safety of cars to heart transplants. Roach’s humorous approach to this book allows the reader to understand the science behind things such as ruptured aortas and human decay. The biological insights that I have gained from this book help me understand the world better because I now understand how humans decay after death (and how it is prevented…

The Future of Dental Hygiene Dental hygienists have many active roles that they must maintain, these include: being an educator, researcher, administrator/manager, advocate, and also a clinician. Dental hygienists are always educators, and explain the treatment plan specifically created for each and every patient. They are also researchers, always learning about the latest and greatest supplies in the dental world to help with suggestions and recommendations for their patients. Dental…

Recently, as a part of the Service Learning for my English class, I had a chance to come down to this veterinary hospital located in city of Allen and spent couple days there to do some volunteer work. What I did was following the doctor and helping him with the surgery, paperwork, watching the animals and so on. It fascinated me how everything works there. Before I was given an opportunity to volunteer at Allen veterinary hospital, I had ever never come to realize how much hardship it takes to…

painkiller], and alcohol. At the time of being hospitalized, she weighed a “mere 115 pounds (52 kg),” (Harris 22). This was Thirty pounds under what someone her height and age should weigh. The night of the incident, she had attended a friends party at a local bar. It was recorded in police reports that she had, “digested Valium and had been drinking Gin and Tonic, before feeling light headed.” She went home to be put to bed by the friend she was living with at the time. When said friend…

monitoring systems to ensure success. Cortisone is part of the corticosteroid group, and according to Duffy (2001), cortisone is produced by the body (adrenal glands), and needed to prevent illness or injury cortisone is sometimes combined with a local anesthetic, and injected into the injured area. The types of cortisones that could be used are prednisone (oral medicine), methylprednisonlone sodium succinate injection…

On the labor and delivery floor, during my preceptorship, many patients were induced by a medication called Dinoprostone. If the patients were being induced they would come in the night before and be admitted. At this time the nurses orient the patient and family to their room, complete the labor and delivery admission record, hook the patient up to the fetal monitors, and perform an assessment that includes maternal vital signs, heart and lung sounds, deep tendon reflexes, and signs of edema.…

Farsightedness can be treated in various ways. Usually, professionals will recomend you contact lenses or glasses, but there are situations where eye surgeries can also be a successful solution. EYE SURGERIES Even though there are many different surgical interventions which may successfully deal with hyperopia, one of the most trustworthy solutions is laser intervention. It is more popular compared to traditional interventions because of reduced risks of eye damage. It is also preventing from…