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Transient uniocular blindness after dental extraction under general anaesthetic
N Malden1, L G Kaye-Wilson, I Hudson
1Oral Surgery Department, Edinburgh Dental Hospital.
British Dental Journal
|May 8, 1993
Abstract:
A 14-year-old boy suffered transient uniocular blindness after extraction of four permanent first molar teeth under general anaesthetic. We discuss the theoretical basis for ocular vasospasm secondary to the minor trauma of dental extraction being relayed to the orbit.