Dental Pain Management and Opioids: How Dentists Can Provide Compassionate Care and Smarter Prescribing
Dental Pain Management and Opioids: How Dentists Can Provide Compassionate Care and Smarter Prescribing The opioid epidemic has touched nearly every corner of healthcare, and dentistry is no exception. For years, dentists prescribed opioids for post-operative pain, sometimes in larger quantities than patients truly needed. Decades ago, it was not unusual to see prescriptions written …