About

Christine L. Quinn, D.D.S., M.S. is a health sciences clinical professor of dental anesthesiology at the UCLA School of Dentistry. She teaches courses in Anesthesia and Pain Control to predoctoral students, Elements of Sedation to postdoctoral students, and courses in pediatric oral conscious sedation and adult moderate intravenous sedation through the UCLA School of Dentistry Continuing Education Program. Dr. Quinn is a provider in the UCLA Dental Anesthesia Service, seeing patients at various clinics including the Children's Dental Center, the Hospital Dentistry Clinic, the Faculty Group Dental Practice, and the school's periodontics, oral surgery, and endodontics clinics. Her research interests include setting up a national system for logging all dental patients treated with anesthesia services. She is a Diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and has been involved in editorial review for scientific journals since 1992.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Commentary

  Anesthesia Progress · 2020

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  • Computer Science
  • Medicine
  • Computer Science

  Due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have decided to print the following commentary to help provide another alternative for reducing potential exposure to and incidental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the provision of anesthesia for dentistry. -Kyle J. Kramer, Editor-in-Chief.

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• Local Anesthetics

  Elsevier eBooks · 2017-01-01 · 8 citations

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• Serum Mepivacaine Concentrations after Intraoral Injection in Young Children

  Journal of the California Dental Association · 2003-10-01 · 5 citations

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  The authors measured plasma concentrations of mepivacaine in 36 children from the ages of 2 to 5 years who received dental care under light general anesthesia. The subjects were randomly assigned to receive either 2 percent mepivacaine hydrochloride with 1:20,000 levonordefrin or 3 percent mepivacaine hydrochloride without vasoconstrictor. The volume of anesthetic injected depended on the planned procedures for each patient. Blood samples (3 mL) were drawn from an intravenous line before and 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, and 60 minutes after mepivacaine injection. The serum was collected and analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography. Mean serum concentrations, normalized to a dose of 1 mg/kg body weight, reached a peak of 0.67 +/- 0.42 microgram/mL (mean +/- SD) after 3 percent mepivacaine and 0.63 +/- 0.21 microgram/mL after 2 percent mepivacaine with levonordefrin. Levonordefrin had no significant effect on the plasma concentrations. However, because of the higher concentration of mepivacaine in the 3 percent formulation, it was potentially 1.5 times as toxic (P < 0.002) on a volume basis. Statistical analysis also suggested that the maximum recommended dose of 3 mg/lb could result in potentially toxic blood concentrations in a small percentage of pediatric patients. The authors conclude that 3 percent mepivacaine should not be used when relatively large volumes of local anesthetic must be administered to small children and recommend that the maximum dose of mepivacaine not exceed 5 mg/kg.

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• The Difficult To Anesthetize Tooth

  Journal of the California Dental Association · 1998-09-01 · 6 citations

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  Failure to achieve anesthesia can be a significant problem in the day-to-day practice of dentistry. The usual strategy following an anesthetic failure is to reinject. Therefore, a good understanding of conventional anesthetic techniques is important. But the practitioner also needs to have a broad armamentarium of injection strategies available for the “difficult-to-anesthetize cases”. These strategies include the use of 5 percent lidocaine, intrapulpal injection, periodontal ligament injection and intraosseous injection. This paper will be a brief discussion of those techniques with an emphasis on the intraosseous injection.

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• Evaluation of a clinical recovery score after general anesthesia.

  PubMed · 1993-01-01 · 9 citations

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  A clinical recovery score (CRS) assessing recovery after general anesthesia was compared with the Digit-Symbol Substitution Test (DSST), Trieger Test (TT), a patient-completed visual analogue scale for alertness (VAS), and an independent observer's evaluation of recovery. The CRS included ratings of the following parameters: activity, respiration, circulation, consciousness, ambulation, color, and nausea and vomiting. Forty patients requiring the removal of three or four third molars participated in the study. All patients received the same general anesthetic technique. Each patient was evaluated by the five methods preoperatively, on admission to the recovery room, and at 15-min intervals until discharge. The four recovery tests (CRS, DSST, TT, VAS) were evaluated using chi 2 analysis to determine if there was any overall difference among the tests using the observer's determination of home readiness as the standard for discharge. The CRS was significantly more in agreement with the observer's determination than were the paper and pencil tests. The recovery tests were also evaluated with regard to instances of early dismissal or prolonged retention of the patient, again using the observer's determination as the "gold standard." The CRS was the only recovery test devoid of early dismissals. We conclude that the CRS provides a valid, simple measure of recovery that can be readily used in offices providing outpatient anesthesia and in studies measuring clinical recovery from anesthesia or sedation.

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• Intravenous sedation for conservative dentistry for disabled patients.

  PubMed · 1991-07-03 · 11 citations

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• Pediatric sedation with intramuscular and intravenous midazolam.

  PubMed · 1991-07-03 · 15 citations

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• Electronic dental anesthesia in a patient with suspected allergy to local anesthetics: report of case

  The Journal of the American Dental Association · 1988-01-01 · 2 citations

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• A comparison of biochemical effects of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and their combination in mouse lung

  Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology · 1984-01-01 · 42 citations

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• Comparison of pulmonary biochemical effects of low‐level ozone exposure on mice and rats

  Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health · 1982-05-01 · 19 citations

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  The biochemical effects of a 5-d continuous exposure to 0.45 ppm (882 microgram/m3) O3, were studied in the lungs of 2-mo-old male, specific-pathogen-free mice (Swiss Webster) and three strains of rats (Long-Evans, Wistar, and Sprague-Dawley). The results, expressed per lung, indicated a general increase in lung weight, DNA and protein contents, oxygen consumption, sulfhydryl metabolism, and the activities of several NADP+-reducing enzymes for all exposed animals relative to their controls. When the increases in the two species (mice versus three strains of rats) were compared, the mice showed significantly higher increases than the rats in several parameters. The responses among the three strains of rats were variable, but the differences were not significant. These observations suggest that Swiss Webster mice may offer a more sensitive animal model than rats for studying the pulmonary effects of a given low-level O3 exposure.

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Frequent coauthors

• Judith A. Graham

  11 shared

• Mohammad G. Mustafa

  South Valley University

  10 shared

• Edward M. Postlethwait

  University of Alabama at Birmingham

  10 shared

• Donald E. Gardner

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  10 shared

• Nabil M. Elsayed

  10 shared

• Stanley F. Malamed

  4 shared

• D F Duperon

  1 shared

• Katherine L. Chin

  1 shared