Background: Dentists are regular prescribers of opioid analgesic medications; however,
there are few published data on their prescribing practices for children. The aim of this study …

Background Overuse of opioids has become a health crisis in the United States and
Canada. Opioid prescribing practices have subsequently come under scrutiny, with limited …

Objective: Recently, there has been great interest in the use, abuse and over-prescribing of
opioid analgesics for children. However, there is a paucity of evidence on patterns of …

Objectives Reports of interventions to improve dental opioid prescribing have come primarily
from academic settings, but most opioid prescriptions are written by community dentists. This …

Background The authors examined trends in opioid prescriptions by dentists for children and
nonsenior adults enrolled in Medicaid. Methods The authors used the IBM Watson Medicaid …

Global consumption of prescription opioid analgesics has increased dramatically in the past
2 decades, outpacing that of illicit drugs in some countries. The increase has been partly …

BACKGROUND: No national study has identified which procedures account for the most US
dental opioid prescriptions or assessed recent opioid prescribing patterns for these …

Abstract Background The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario introduced a new
dental opioid prescribing guideline in November 2015. The authors examined whether …

Opioid analgesics and antibiotics prescribed by dentists either as an adjunct or as a
definitive treatment for common dental diseases is a useful and cost-effective measure when …

Introduction Dentists prescribe 1 in 10 opioid prescriptions in the US When opioids are
necessary, national guidelines recommend the prescription of low-dose opioids for a short …