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State Dental Association Releases Comprehensive Opioid Guidelines
The New Jersey Dental Association (NJDA) has released guidelines on safely prescribing and dosing...
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Online Pharmacies Add to Growing Antimicrobial Resistance Dangers
Dentistry accounts for approximately 10% of the antibiotics prescribed in the United Kingdom, according...
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100 Million Opioids Go Unused After Tooth Extractions
More than half of the opioids prescribed to patients after the extractions of wisdom...
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Monthly Reports Discourage Dentists from Prescribing Antibiotics
As concerns over antimicrobial resistance mount, health organizations are developing strategies to help dentists...
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Surgeon General Campaign Aims to Reduce Opioid Prescriptions
With opioid overdose deaths quadrupling since 1999, US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD,...
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CDC and OSAP Issue Best Practices for Dental Antibiotic Use
Antimicrobial agents have spared millions of patients from illness and death caused by infection....
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Dentists Warned of Lethal Drug Interactions
The British Dental Association is warning dentists to mind potential negative interactions between the...
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GPs Prescribing Unnecessary Antibiotics for Dental Problems
More than half of the patients in the United Kingdom who visited their general...
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ADEA Tracks Dental Legislation
As the governments of 36 states and the District of Columbia enter their 2016...
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Rx Painkillers Still a Significant Source of Addiction
The number of dental prescriptions for opioids has declined in recent years, though practitioners...