PRODUCT:
Single Tooth Anesthesia (STA™) System

SOURCE:
Milestone Scientific
Livingston, N.J.
877-782-4748
stais4u.com

To be honest, I used to make fun of devices like this in my lectures. I always wondered why I would need a $1,500 product to do what I could do with a $20 syringe. Did I really need a computer to give a slow injection for me? Hadn’t I been giving slow injections my whole career, much to the pleasure of my patients? Before I tell you about what I love about the STA™ System, let me tell you why I decided to buy it. I always hated having to give a carpule on a lower block and then remove the syringe, load another carpule, and reinject. I have long dreamed about a double sized carpule. When I saw that the STA System allows you to load a second carpule without removing the needle, I was sold. It had me at hello. What I didn’t realize was how stress free it makes injections, especially when you have to give multiple maxillary infiltrations. And of course the fact that it works with the Rapid Anesthesia technique on our newest DVD, of injecting into the furcation of a lower molar to achieve single tooth anesthesia, made this product a no-brainer purchase for me.