Pain Management Articles

• Prescribing Opioid Analgesics for Acute Dental Pain: Time to Change Clinical Practices in Response to Evidence and Misperceptions

  Raymond A. Dionne, DDS, PhD, Sharon M. Gordon, DDS, MPH, Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH
  Compendium - June 2016

  The authors provide therapeutic recommendations to help dental providers change prescribing patterns.

• Unique Anesthetic Delivery System: Buffering a New Revolution in Dentistry

  Compendium - May 2016

  "Anesthesia in dentistry can be unpredictable, but buffering helps make it more predictable, reliable, and efficient."

• Breaking Down Barriers to Care With Effective Pain Management

  Raymond A. Dionne, DDS, PhD
  Compendium - May 2016

  When rendering patient care, effective pain management in dentistry is a vital consideration. Part of delivering that care is enhancing the clinical experience by preventing and managing pain.

• Sedation Dentistry

  Ellen Meyer
  Inside Dentistry - April 2016

  Sedation dentistry and ensuring the comfort and safety of anxious patients

• Opioid Prescribing in Dentistry: Keys for Safe and Proper Usage

  Raymond Dionne, DDS, MS, PhD, Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH
  Compendium - January 2016

  Due to public health issues related to the misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, dentists must be aware of which drugs are most commonly misused or abused.

• General Anesthesia for Dental Treatment in a Patient With Huntington’s Chorea

  Irena Haimov-Kaldess, DMD, Doron Haim, DMD, MPA, Adi A. Garfunkel, DMD
  Compendium - January 2016

  This article discusses factors that are of significant concern to the dentist anesthesiologist team treating patients with Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

• Three Serious Drug Interactions that Every Dentist Should Know About

  Elliot V. Hersh, DMD, MS, PhD, Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH
  Compendium - June 2015

  Patients with complex medical and drug histories are becoming more commonplace in dental practice. This article reviews three serious adverse drug interactions that are well supported by the literatur...

• Research Update - Pain Management

  Compendium - May 2015

• Postoperative Pain Management in Dentistry

  Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH, Elliot V. Hersh, DMD, MS, PhD
  Inside Dentistry - April 2015

  Five strategies to assure safe and effective use of analgesics

• Use of Opioid Pain Relievers Following Extraction of Third Molars

  Breanna M. Weiland, DMD, Anthony G. Wach, DMD, Brent P. Kanar, DMD, Matthew T. Castele, DMD, Mark F. Sosovicka, DMD, Matthew R. Cooke, DDS, MD, MPH, Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH
  Compendium - February 2015

  An assessment of patient pain experiences and actual opioid analgesic usage was carried out using structured telephone interviews of patients performed 1 and 7 days following their thirdmolar extracti...

• Effects of a Vibratory Device on Pain from Anesthetic Injections

  Michael G. DiFelice, DMD, MS, Kraig S. Vandewalle, DDS, MS, Steven C. Maller, DDS, MS, Raymond H. Hancock, DDS, MS
  Compendium - April 2014

  The goal of this research is to determine the effectiveness of a vibratory device with topical anesthetic compared to topical anesthetic only in reducing the pain experienced during an inferior alveol...

• Dentin Hypersensitivity from Bleaching

  Jaimeé Morgan, DDS
  Inside Dentistry - April 2014

  Techniques for decreasing or eliminating this common side effect

• Dentin Hypersensitivity: Differential Diagnosis, Tests, and Etiology

  Richard Trushkowsky, DDS, Franklin Garcia-Godoy, DDS, MS, PhD, PhD
  Compendium - February 2014

  This review of dentin hypersensitivity expounds on how this painful condition is characterized and describes the diagnosis and clinical management of it.

• Restoration Variables and Postoperative Hypersensitivity in Class I Restorations: PEARL Network Findings. Part 2

  Peter Blanchard, DDS, Ying Wong, DDS, Abigail G. Matthews, PhD, Donald Vena, BS, Ronald G. Craig, DMD, PhD, Frederick A. Curro, DMD, PhD, Van P. Thompson, DDS, PhD
  Compendium - April 2013

  This study investigated postoperative hypersensitivity following resin-based composite restoration of occlusal caries as well as the relationship to materials and technique.

• Propofol: An Overview of Its Risks and Benefits

  Mana Saraghi, DMD, Victor M. Badner, DMD, MPH, Leonard R. Golden, MD, Elliot V. Hersh, DMD, MS, PhD
  Compendium - April 2013

  When used for sedation, propofol can pose risks for cardiac and respiratory complications, making it critical that the drug be administered by a practitioner well trained in general anesthesia.