Rethinking Standing Orders for Opioids to Manage Pain in Adolescents and Young Adults Requiring Third Molar Extraction
Premiere Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2020This activity offers CE credit for:
- Dental
All other clinicians will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this activity was certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Credit Expiration Date:
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Note: Credit Is No Longer Available
 | Mani Saraghi, DMD, DADBA Diplomate, American Dental Board of Anesthesiology Director, Dental Anesthesiology Residency Program Jacobi Medical Center Assistant Professor of Dentistry Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY |
It has long been a habit of dentists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons to prescribe narcotics following surgeries such as third molar extraction, with many prescribing as many as 20-30 tablets. A recent study of 105 patients who underwent third molar extraction saw 8 surgeons prescribing 1,773 opioid units, with only 38.4% of those units being consumed during the study period. As dental postsurgical pain is mainly driven by inflammation, NSAIDs are an effective non-opioid alternative to treatment, and applying a multimodal analgesia approach provides pain relief at multiple inputs on the nociceptive pathway, reducing the need for opioids.
The first installment of this CME Outfitters BriefCase series on non-opioid pain management focuses on how to choose safe and effective pain management strategies for dental postsurgical pain by aligning pain management practices to evidence-based recommendations for a rational, multimodal approach to analgesia.
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply evidence and guideline recommendations supporting non-opioid pain management to treatment decision-making.
Supported by an educational grant from Johnson & Johnson, administered by Johnson & Johnson.
Dentists and oral surgeons
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Dr. Saraghi reports that she is a consultant to the New York State Department of Health as a subject matter expert in acute dental pain management, including opioids, for a project called, "Dental Opioid Prescribing Using Health Literacy Concepts, Acute Pain Management".
Evan Luberger (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Jan Perez (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Sharon Tordoff (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
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