Eliminating that “numb” feeling after dental appointments

Have you ever left the dentist with a numb lip that seems to last all day? You feel like your face is swollen, you can’t speak, eat, or drink normally, you feel like you are drooling, or you even biting your lip without knowing it.
Well, now there is a new product on the market called Ora Verse- a local anesthesia reversal agent that was FDA approved in May 2008. Ora Verse was developed to solve the postoperative numb lip, chin, and cheek phenomenon. Ora Verse has been shown to reduce the time of anesthesia to slightly less than one hour. This compares well with the usual two-plus hours that are normally felt with dental anesthetics. Ora Verse is an injectible agent that is packaged and administered just like all of our local anesthetics except it shortens the numb feeling, and gets you back to normal function quicker.

If your dentist offered Ora Verse, would you be interested? If there was an extra fee to cover the cost of Ora Verse would you pay for it? Let me know what you think!