A Rare Case of Palatal Necrotic Ulcer Following Local Anesthesia

Abstract

Definitely, the daily practice in dentistry involves widely the realization of local anesthesia considered as the cornerstone in the control of the pain, the gain of the patient's confidence and providing favourable conditions to realize dental and oral procedures, despite that the security of the local anesthesia is high, it is possible to have complications, the hard palate is one of the common sites of local complications after the administration of local anesthetics. Palatal necrotic ulcer is a rare complication that occurs due to traumatic needle penetration, excessive administration of the solution, the use of contaminated solutions, reactivation of latent viruses or latent forms of diseases such as herpes, blanching at the anesthetic site and a poor blood supply. In this Paper, we have presented a rare case of palate postanesthetic necrotic ulceration in a 31 years-old male which appeared two days after the administration of a palatal infiltration for dental procedures, adequate treatment was performed and healing occurs after 3 days.