[citation needed] The incisive branch represents the anterior continuation of the inferior alveolar nerve.

[4] Inferior nerve injury most commonly occurs during surgery including wisdom tooth, dental implant placement in the mandible, root canal treatment where tooth roots are close to the nerve canal in the mandible, deep dental local anaesthetic injections or orthognathic surgery.

However, this risk assessment is not concrete as the same source[citation needed] is cited for lingual nerve paresthesia.

[8] These high risk wisdom teeth can be further assessed using cone beam CT imaging to assess and plan surgery to minimise nerve injury by careful extraction or undertaking a coronectomy procedure in healthy patients with healthy teeth.

[citation needed] Routine preoperative warnings about these injuries should occur before surgery, and represent good practice.

[11][12] Inferior alveolar nerve injury secondary to orthodontic treatment is also emerging in the literature in the recent years as a rare complication and manifested as anesthesia, paresthesia, or combination of both; however full recovery was achieved in all of the reported cases when proper management was applied.

This causes loss of sensation on the same side as the block to: Studies found that oral medications of NSAIDs taken before the dental procedure increases the efficacy of the anesthesia in patients with irreversible pulpitis.