How do vasoconstrictors enhance the effects of local anesthetic drugs?
What will be an ideal response?
Vasoconstrictors enhance local anesthetic drugs by constricting local vessels, slowing systemic absorption, and prolonging the local actions of the drugs. These combine to increase the profoundness and durations of the drugs.
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