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Until today, the use of local anesthesia in children was limited, first, by the pain- fulness of the injection, which is not tolerated by children, and, second, by the fact that their low body weight means that the maximum dose of anesthetic is reached with a very small volume.
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Breuninger, H. (2001). Local Anesthesia in Children. In: Hanke, C.W., Sommer, B., Sattler, G. (eds) Tumescent Local Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56744-5_35
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