DENTISTRY DRUG
Less Toxic Effects (N 2. Press -Association) j WELLINGTON, April 27. Local anaesthesia in dentistry had become far more satisfactory, and therefore | more acceptable to patients, since the introduction of the I Swedish drug xylocaine. Efforts had been made to produce even more satisfactory idrugs with less toxic effects. Dr. V. Goldman, head of the department of anaesthesia of the Elastman Dental Hospital. Londoin, said in an interview today. He is on his way to the seventeenth Australian dental congress in Perth in May. He said he would present to the Perth congress a report of a large-scale trial of a new drug, as effective as x.vloeaine but with only half its toxicity The new drugj | was to be termed “citanest,"( ihe said. -
Dr. T. S. Weston, radiologist, Princess Margaret Hospital, an.' Dr. R. D. Gibson, radiologist, Christchurch Hospital, have been given senior specialist grading.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30426, 28 April 1964, Page 12
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