opioids

Alternatives More Effective Than Opioids in Treating Dental Pain

Opioids aren’t among the most effective or longest lasting options available for relief from...

Low-Level Laser Therapy: An Alternative to Opioids in Dentistry

What if you had technology that could reduce your patients’ pain, improve their wound...

Accurate Coding Saves Lives

Opioids including prescription drugs, heroin, and fentanyl killed more than 42,000 people in 2016,...

Medicaid: A Prime Driver Behind the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic

On January 17, 2018, the US Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...

ADA Announces New Opioid Policy

The ADA has announced a new policy on opioids supporting mandates on prescription limits...

Hydrocodone Prescriptions Continue After Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

As the nation continues to wrestle with opioid misuse and addiction, oral and maxillofacial...

UMSOD Implements Digital Solutions to Combat Opioid Crisis

The University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) has joined with DrFirst to fight...

UAB School of Dentistry Revamps Its Opioid Education Program

Alabama is first in the nation in opioid prescriptions per capita, according to the...

Helping Patients With Opioid Addiction

We are witnessing one of the most lethal drug epidemics in history. According to...

Dentists Can Help Stop the Opioid Epidemic

Arizona is among six states that have declared the opioid epidemic a public health...