Ali Khan, Hira Zaman, Huma Aziz.
Frequency of Lingual Nerve Injury During Mandibular 3 rd Molar Extraction Under Local Anesthesia.
Ann Pak Inst Med Sci Jan ;12(1):4-7.

Objective: To determine the incidence of lingual nerve injury and to correlate the various factors associated withlingual nerve paresthesia during third molar surgery Study Design: Cross-sectional study Place and Duration: Islamic International Dental Hospital & Medicsi Hospital for 24months Materials and Methods: A prospective audit was carried out and incidence of paresthesia was documented as patients were treated by different consultants, specialist registrars and house officers. Results: A total of 250 patients were assessed. Out of these two patients reported Lingual nerve paraesthesia that was temporary and one patient reported permanent lingual nerve paresthesia. There was no patient reporting with temporary and permanent inferior alveolar nerve paraesthesia. Conclusion: It was concluded that the factors leading to temporary or permanent paraesthesia is actually difficulty of extraction. Other parameters like operator’s seniority, age and medical condition of the patient, gender, level of impaction, type of flap and the tooth side in relation to the handedness of the operator had minimal effect on the outcome.

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