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Pitt School of Dental Medicine Establishes Opioid-Free Treatment Guidelines

The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine is the first in the nation...

Delaware Campaign Aims to Prevent Opioid Abuse After Dental Procedures

The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is launching a campaign to increase awareness...

Informed Consent Form for Opioid Prescriptions Now Available

The Dentists Insurance Company (TDIC) has developed a resource to help prescribers follow a...

UnitedHealthcare Updates Policies to Reduce Potential Opioid Misuse

Noting that oral health professionals write 12% of all opioid prescriptions, including 45% of...

When Dentists Should Prescribe Opioids—and When They Shouldn’t

Every day, 90 people die in the United States from an overdose that involves...

Dentists Wrestle with Prescribing Opioids

Opioid abuse continues to dominate the national conversation. In 2015, 12.5 million people misused...

Lasers Expand the Procedural Scope for General Dentists

To say there is a lot of negativity about dental lasers, especially hard tissue...