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Procedures such as laceration repair, which at one time required the use of painful infiltrative anesthetics, can now be accomplished safely and comfortably with the use of topical anesthetics. An additional advantage of topical anesthetics in laceration repair is that wound margins are not distorted.
Local anesthesia uses medicine to block sensations of pain from a specific area of the body. Local anesthetics are usually given by injection into the body area that needs to be anesthetized. They are not injected into the bloodstream (intravenous, IV). Local anesthesia can also be applied directly to the skin or mucous membranes as a liquid or gel. This is called topical anesthesia.