Topical anesthetics are valuable tools for dermatologists. These are increasingly used to decrease the pain associated with superficial dermatologic, aesthetic, and laser procedures.The knowledge of the mode of action and toxicity of anesthetics, as well as the emergency management of their potential complications, is essential for dermatologists. The current article focuses on the use of some topical anesthetics used for dermatological procedures.
The topical anesthetics decrease pain during and permit a variation of dermatologic procedures to be performed without anatomic distortion from a local anesthetic injection. As the number of dermatologic procedures continues to grow, since many effective and simple topical anesthetics are available and commonly used in the medical situations. Specific FDA approved topical anesthetics Topical anesthetics exist in many different preparations…
