What do you do when a dental patient refuses local anesthetic?

2024-11-05

So what do you do when patients sit in the chair and refuse any kind of anesthetic during their dental procedure? While it is a

How to save your teeth during election season (and other stressful times)

2024-10-30

Editor’s note: Election Day is almost here, and the results that will be announced on November 5 are a source of stress for many Americans.

Patients reveal their top 10 fears of the dentist and dental appointment

2024-10-23

When it comes to the most common fears that patients have about walking through the doors of the dental practice, it appears that being scared

This may be key to reduce the risk of postoperative delirium

2024-10-23

Giving patients nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen before or during surgeries may reduce their risk of developing postoperative delirium, according to a press release

Music performance may be a risk factor for TMD

2024-10-04

Musical performance, including playing a keyboard and upper string instruments, may be an occupational risk factor for temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs). The study was published

How to talk to patients about dental hypersensitivity

2024-10-03

Though patients may not discuss dental hypersensitivity because the condition may seem minor or unsolvable, clinicians should make time for these discussions. The study was

Dental work for toothache leads actor to lose his hobbit feet

2024-09-30

Actor Billy Boyd, best known as Pippin in the trilogy “The Lord of the Rings,” perspired, ungluing his hairy hobbit feet while receiving a dental

6 in 10 patients take dental problems into their own hands

2024-09-27

About 60% of dental patients self-medicate — most commonly with analgesics and antibiotics — for their oral health problems, including unbearable pain, according to a

Forward Science improves its oral pain relief gel

2023-09-06

Medical technology firm Forward Science has enhanced its nonopioid oral pain relief gel BioStōm. In collaboration with its partners PuraGraft and MPS, Forward Science improved

3rd-molar surgery patients open to relief but not cost of bupivacaine

2023-08-17

Patients want to receive the long-acting local anesthetic liposomal bupivacaine to help manage pain after third-molar surgery, but few are willing to pay for it

Researchers develop gene therapy for chronic oral pain

2023-08-02

Researchers at the Pain Research Center in New York University’s College of Dentistry recently developed a gene therapy that treats chronic pain, their results being

Is SDF the answer to reducing tooth sensitivity?

2023-07-18

Older adults experienced a nearly 60% reduction in dentine hypersensitivity when silver diamine fluoride (SDF) was applied to the root surfaces of their teeth. The