One of the most common questions we hear from licensed dental healthcare professionals when considering the prospect of dropping their federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) permit is “Can I do that?” The answer is “Yes you can”. Your professional license issued by the state in which you practice affords the ability to conduct patient care […]
A Veritable Quandary? Read More »
We need to rethink the way acute pain is managed. We tend to think of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory or acetaminophen whether used alone or in combination (non-opiate multimodal anaglesic therapy) as “alternatives” to opiates…when in fact we should actually consider the converse…that opiates are the alternative to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents – alone or in combination. We
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Opiate analgesic use for post-surgical pain is undergoing a lot of scrutiny not only in #dentistry but also in #otolaryngology as evidenced in a recent commentary I helped author regarding the merits of non-opiate multimodal analgesic therapy.
Otolaryngology And Non-Opiate Multimodal Analgesic Therapy Read More »
CE Dojo announces it’s microlearning course series eBytes. Each microlearning course is a 15 minute vignette on a topic of clinical relevance in a distilled and concentrated manner. CE Dojo is an nationally approved AGD PACE provider of continuing education. Microlearners can recieved CE credit for individual courses alone or in combination with other microcourses.
Introducing eBytes – CE Dojo’s Microlearning Curriculum Read More »
We continuously endorse the use of over-the-counter analgesics (non-opiate multi-modal therapy) such as Advil (Ibuprofen), Aleve (Naproxen), and Tylenol (Acetaminophen) – alone or in combination – for most – if not all dental procedures…including surgery. In fact, we train doctors who participate in our state mandated opiate compliance webinar “Strategies For Acute Pain Management In
Clonidine Revisted…Again… Read More »
More evidence that NSAIDs with or without acetaminophen are more effective in alleviating pain in the postoperative dental surgery pain model. A recent study from JBR Clinical research demonstrated some unanticipated findings: “This study is important because the relative efficacy of these two commonly used pain medications has not been directly compared in a validated
Study: Naproxen More Effective Than Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen After Dental Surgery Read More »
This past February The Stanford- Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis released their Executive Summary on the state of the opiate crisis. This position paper reviews the past, the present, the future, and proposes remedies. From 1999 to 2022 The Commission estimates 600,000 deaths in the US and Canada but projects that in
Opiate Crisis To Triple In Next 7 Years Read More »
It is up to us (OMS) to be good stewards of responsible opiate prescribing to one of our more common and most susceptible patient demographics.
The More Things Change… Read More »
A pre-print citation in medRxiv is demonstrating a near 100% increase in opiate related deaths in the high school age demographic (ages 14-18) from 2019 to 2020 alone. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl once again appears to be the usual suspect. This study calculated drug overdose deaths by 5 year age groups over the 11 year period from 2010
Opiate Epidemic Disproportionately Worsening in High School Age Demographic Read More »
In my brief tenure as an academic oral & maxillofacial surgeon and through advanced graduate studies in clinical informatics at Oregon Health & Sciences University, I gained a real working knowledge of the benefits of the EPIC electronic health record (EHR). EHR implementation gained heavy momentum during the Obama presidency as the result of the HITECH
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