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Your dentist gives you an injection of anesthetic in preparation for a filling. Which cranial nerve did they target?.

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An anesthetic solution is injected adjacent to the mandibular nerve to block the transmission of pain signals from the mandible to the brain. The mandibular nerve is one of the three major branches of the trigeminal nerve, which is located on either side of the face.

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