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Dental Opioid Prescriptions Put Families at Risk of Overdose

Overdose rates are two and a half times higher among patients who filled a...

Dentist Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Opioid and Medicare Fraud

Bradley A. Seyer, DDS, of Florissant, Missouri, has been sentenced to 18 months of...

More Than Half of Dental Opioid Prescriptions Exceed CDC Guidelines

About half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed...

Dental Receptionist Sentenced to Prison for Forging Opioid Prescriptions

On October 28, Senior US District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Belinda Dietrich...

Dentist Sentenced to Eight and a Half Years in Prison for Opioid Conspiracy

A dentist in Virginia Beach has been sentenced to nearly eight and a half...

Large-Scale Study to Explore Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen as Opioid Alternatives

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded the Rutgers School of...

US Dentists Prescribe 37 Times More Opioids Than English Dentists

Dentists in the United States write 37 times more opioid prescriptions than those practicing...

Walgreens Settles Fraud Cases for $269.2 Million

On January 22, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced the settlement...

Hydrocodone Prescriptions Continue After Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

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

100 Million Opioids Go Unused After Tooth Extractions

More than half of the opioids prescribed to patients after the extractions of wisdom...