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Smoking weed prior to a dentist appointment?

Roger&Me said:
This is bullshit, novocaine acts by inhibiting sodium influx through voltage gated sodium channels in the neuronal cell membrane of peripheral nerves. Cannabis acts centrally through the endocannabinoid system, they don't "compete" (whatever that means) at all.

Anyways, this claim is spurious. Provide a reference if you care to back up your claim, but I'm calling bullshit.
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I already apologized a few posts above for my error. If you care, stop harassing me, thanks.
 
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^ If he were harassing you then surely he would have to have made more than one single passing comment? People get touchy about misinformation of a site like this. I'm sure he doesn't mean anything by it.
 
Sorry, I'm new to this part of the forum, I'm coming here now because I made a pause in my cannabis consommation in 2003 and I just began smoking again, albeit some primo bud.

To focus back on the subject, I just happened to have some dental surgery in my smoking days, and happened to have smoked the morning prior to the surgery.

The cannabis definately interferred in some ways with the anesthetic, which coulnd't do its job. I was still in pain. That's all.
 
Many people have trouble getting dental anesthetic to work because it is usually administered with epinephrine (a vasoconstrictor which is intended to reduce bleeding).

I would imagine there's a large psychological component too. I know for a fact dental anesthetics can be ineffective when you're sober...
 
Although the epinephrine used in dental anesthetics can be utilized to reduce bleeding when anesthetizing soft tissue, its main purpose is to slow the dissipation of anesthesia away from the nerves so it lasts longer.

Epinephrine is not the reason people have trouble getting numb. It is simply due to operator error or anatomical variations in nerve distribution.

Definitely agree there is a psychological component at play because cannabis will not pharmacologically interrupt/interact with local anesthetics.
 
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