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 theprocedures performed in this branch of health, which can be applied locallyor generally, depending on the complexity of the case. The most commonlyused anesthesia techniques in dentistry are trunk and infiltrative, with thetrunk technique being the one that is most often complicated for variousreasons: the location and position that the anesthetic cartridge must have,and the anatomical area that is usually difficult to palpate when placing theneedle. This research was conducted by assessing each student accordingto their level of clinical training while performing the inferior alveolar nervetechnique; a questionnaire was administered, and observations were madeduring their practice. This study was observational and descriptive with across-sectional design, focused on the inferior alveolar nerve blockingtechnique by students in the dental clinic. In general, 95.4% of the studentsbelieve the predominant symptoms after the anesthesia was administeredto the inferior alveolar nerve are tingling and numbness. It was alsoobserved that there is a positive relationship between the level of safety andthe clinical level, meaning that at a higher clinical level, there is better safetyin performing the block of the inferior alveolar nerve. In the case of clinicallevels 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% forclinical I, 54% for clinical II, 34% for clinical III, 77% for clinical IV, 87% forclinical V, 74% for clinical VI, and 76% for clinical VII. As a result, the level oftheoretical knowledge in each of the clinics is 54.8% for clinical I, 48.4% forclinical 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 practicalknowledge, it was 73.6% for clinical I, 62.8% for clinical II, 70.84 for clinicalIII, 68.1% for clinical IV, and 70.6% for clinical V, clinic VI, 78.7 clinic VII.