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Novacaine has not been the drug of choice for dental treatment for many decades. Several superior local anesthetics have been developed since novacaine was used. Novacaine has fallen out of use due to its relatively high incidence of allergic reactions.

Today, lidocaine is considered the gold standard against which all other local anesthetics are compared.

Today many dentists use a combination of local anesthetics such as Septocaine (fast acting) and lidocaine (long lasting).

For patients who have heart conditions or are highly susceptible to epinephrine (an ingredient in many local anesthetics) the most common alternative is mepivicaine 3% w/o epinephrine.

The term 'novacaine' is often used with patients (incorrectly) to mean local anesthetic of any kind, much like 'Kleenex' is used to mean facial tissue.

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I just came back to the United States from Tijuana, Mexico where I visited a dentist who will be extracting my last remaining 17 teeth in two weeks. They don't use Novocaine in Mexico, but use a substitute, who's name eludes me. I would probably recognize the name if I heard it. Can you give me a couple names of substitutes? Thank you.

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Novocaine is a trade name for Procaine.

Lidocaine (Xylocaine) is an alternative.

Procaine was first synthesized in 1898 and was the first injectable man-made local anesthetic. It was created by the German chemist Alfred Einhorn (1857--1917) who gave the chemical the trade name Novocaine, from the Latin nov- (meaning new) and -caine, a common ending for alkaloids used as anesthetics. It was introduced into medical use by surgeon Heinrich Braun (1862--1934).

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In Australia the most common local anaesthetic used is Lignocaine with a small amount of adrenalin which rduces the blood supply to the local are thus improving the length of time the anaesthetic works and reducing bleeding during procedures. Most LA (local anaesthetics) are a derivative of cocaine (without the high!) eg articaine, prilocaine, etc

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