An Alternative to Local Anesthesia as You Know It

For many people, getting 'the needle' is the thing they least look forward to when they visit the dentist. However, local anesthetic is often an essential component of successful, comfortable dental procedure. The days of being a patient before the invention of anesthetics could be quite horrific indeed!

At Metro Dental Care, we offer an alternative method of local anaesthetic delivery utilizing the STA (Single Tooth Anesthesia) Unit. It differs from 'traditional' local anesthetic delivery in that instead of the dentist pumping the anesthetic, the flow is instead controlled by a computer. Since most discomfort during anesthesia is actually from pressure and rate flow from the anesthetic fluid rather than the actual penetration of the needle, using a computer to control the flow rate of the anesthetic so that it is slow and constant could result in a different experience. We offer both traditional and computer-controlled anesthetic options to our patients at no additional expense.

To learn more about the device and patient feedbacks, please visit the following:
http://milesci.com/sta_patients.html