Pain Management Articles

• Safely Bend Needles for Improved Injections

  Greg Tuttle, DDS
  Inside Dentistry - January 2020

• Postextraction Hemostasis for Medically Compromised Patients

  Robert J. Abbiati, DDS
  Inside Dentistry - December 2019

• Dexamethasone

  Mark Donaldson, Pharm D, Jason H. Goodchild, DMD
  Inside Dentistry - November 2019

• A Prescription for Change

  Jackie Syrop
  Inside Dentistry - September 2019

• Pharmacotherapy for the Pediatric Dental Patient

  William Nicola, DDS, Aviv Ouanounou, DDS , MSc
  Compendium - June 2019

  This article presents two case reports outlining circumstances that clinicians may commonly face and describes the management of atypical tooth spacing caused by congenitally missing teeth.

• Middle Superior Alveolar Technique: Efficacy in the Premolar Maxillary Region

  Adel Martínez Martínez, DDS, MS, Andres Romero Blanquicett, DDS, Isabella Manzur Villalobos, DDS
  Compendium - May 2019

• Using Lasers to Improve Comfort

  Samuel B. Low, DDS, MS, MEd
  Inside Dentistry - May 2019

  Read on to see how the increase in adverse anesthesia reactions has created a demand for alternative treatments.

• Strategies to Scrutinize Opioid Prescribing for Dental Pain Management

  David A. Hamlin, DMD, MBA
  Compendium - April 2019

  In this article, we show how dental professionals have the opportunity to combat the opioid epidemic and improve quality of care for patients taking opioids.

• Effects of NSAIDS on Periodontal and Dental Implant Therapy

  Anusha Etikala, BDS, MS, Mustafa Tattan, BDS, Houssam Askar, BDS, Hom-Lay Wang, DDS, MSD, PhD
  Compendium - February 2019

• Opioid Analgesics

  Raymond A. Dionne, DDS, MS, PhD, Sharon M. Gordon, DDS, MPH
  Inside Dentistry - January 2019

• How Do Lasers Reduce Pain, and What Amount of Treatment Is Necessary?

  Scott D. Benjamin, DDS, Arun Darbar BDS, Praveen R. Arany, DDS, PHD
  Inside Dentistry - July 2018

• Tranexamic Acid as a Hemostatic Adjunct in Dentistry

  Riccardo I. Ambrogio, DMD, Marci H. Levine, DMD, MD
  Compendium - June 2018

• Given the Current Epidemic of Opioid Abuse, What Is Your Prescribing Regimen When Managing Patient Pain?

  Raymond A. Dionne, DDS, MS, PhD, Mark Donaldson, ACPR, PHARMD, FASHP, FACHE, Jason H. Goodchild, DMD
  Inside Dentistry - May 2018

• Safety-Centric Sedation

  Robert C. Bosack, DDS
  Inside Dentistry - May 2018

• Innovations in Local Anesthesia are Easing the Pain of Dentistry

  Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH
  Compendium - April 2018