Question 15 of 15

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Your patient, a 35-year old healthy female, indicates on her medical history that she is allergic to penicillin and is 4 months pregnant. Her chief complaint is that she is noticing blood on her toothbrush when she brushes her teeth and that her "gums hurt."

Upon clinical examination, you observe that she has a pyogenic granuloma between her maxillary central incisors and there is moderate to advanced gingival inflammation throughout her mouth, accompanied by large deposits of supra- and sub-gingival calculus.

Your treatment plan includes full-mouth root debridement, to be performed in quadrants in 4 subsequent appointments. Your plan is to use lidocaine 2% with epinephrine 1:100,000.

Is the use of this anesthetic contraindicated:

  1. yes, epinephrine should not be used on pregnant women
  2. yes, lidocaine should not be used on pregnant women
  3. no, there are not any contraindications to the use of local anesthetic agents on pregnant women
  4. no, however the clinician should be conservative in using any drugs on pregnant women