Is dental treatment during Ramadan that involves anesthesia, gum opening, and blood extraction invalidating to the fast? If it does invalidate the fast, is there a need for expiation?
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Peace be upon you.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei and Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may Allah protect them):
1) Anesthesia injection in the mouth does not invalidate the fast.
2) What could invalidate the fast is swallowing blood from the gums, but the fast is only invalidated by such actions if done intentionally. If it is not done intentionally, then the fast remains valid.
May you be successful in all good.
Source:
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may Allah protect him): Official Website + Minhaj al-Salihin, Part One, Completion of Committing Invalidators.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may Allah protect him): Official Website, Q3 + Message on Prayer and Fasting, Fasting, Issue 819.