As the nation comes to terms with a prescription opioid epidemic, dentistry is beginning to understand its own unintentional contribution and seek ways to address it. The article urges dental providers to reexamine entrenched prescribing habits and thought patterns regarding treatment of acute dental pain. It points to evidence suggesting that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are nonaddicti...

A typical Odontalgia, typically related to changes in barometric pressure persisted for over 5 year. Despite extensive dental interventions and multiple analgesics the pain continued to have a significant impact on the quality of life of the 64 years old male. Following the introduction of Tapentadol (a dual action opioid and noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitor) a significant improvement on the p...

This study sought to compare the prevalence and intensity of dental pain in the last 3 months in adolescents living in two areas within the scope of Family Health Strategy with different to oralhealth care approaches. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 300 adolescents selected from public schools in the city of Manaus, Brazil. Adolescents living in an area with an Oral Health Team in wh...

OBJECTIVE Cultural or ethnic factors may play an important role in subjects' pain reports. The aim of the study was to compare the prevalence of orofacial pain symptoms between Finnish and Thai populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Finnish study population comprised the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, of which 5696 subjects participated in the present study. The Thai sample consisted of ...

Acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioids are available as analgesics in dentistry. They each have specific advantages, disadvantages, indications and contraindications. This article provides a brief review of their role in the management of acute postoperative pain.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate self-reported oral health attitudes and behavior among a group of dental students in Bangalore, India and to compare the oral health attitudes of students of different years of dental school. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire based on a modified version of the Hiroshima University Dental Behavior Inventory (HU-DBI) was administered to 250 dental students. RESU...

PURPOSE The purpose of this survey were to assess the dental caries prevalence rate among children enrolled in Ohio's Head Start programs and assess factors relating to their dental care access. METHODS Oral screenings were conducted on 2,555 children, ages 3 through 5 years, at 50 Ohio Head Start centers using probability-proportional-to-size sampling. In addition, parental responses to 6 ac...

The recent withdrawal of a popular analgesic medication by the Irish Medicines Board has raised a number of important questions regarding the use of analgesics for acute dental pain. This short article reviews some of the principles of analgesic usage and outlines the scope of available prescription drugs.

This article presents the clinical characteristics, epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of 2 neuropathic conditions: trigeminal neuralgia and atypical odontalgia. A case report highlights the complexities involved in diagnosing neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is chronic, diverse in quality, difficult to localize and it occurs in the absence of obvious pathology. To avoid multiple, in...

To retrospectively review the impact of outbreak coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on services in oral emergency room. A statistical analysis epidemiological characteristics and patients’ diagnoses treatments Emergency Department Peking University Hospital Stomatology during COVID-19 2020 compared with those Beijing, China. There were fewer total visits than (P = 0.001), proportions patients ...