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What do Oral Surgeons use to numb your whole mouth? Please explain in detail

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Sometimes your dentist needs to numb a part of your mouth. He or she injects medicine into your gum or inner cheek. This medicine is called local anesthesia. Lidocaine is the most common local anesthetic that dentists use.
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