American dentists often prescribe more than the recommended supply of opioid painkillers to patients, a new study finds. Not only that, they are more likely to prescribe more powerful opioids, the researchers found.
issued by dentists were for longer than the three-day supply recommended by the CDC for acute dental pain management. And 29% of dental patients received more powerful opioids than needed for expected pain after their dental procedures, the findings showed."Unlike national trends, opioid overprescribing by dentists is increasing.
"As high prescribers of opioids writing prescriptions for a tenth of the opioids dispensed in the U.S., dentists should be included as part of the multifaceted solution needed for the opioid epidemic," Suda said in a journal news release. More study is needed to see if opioid prescribing patterns among dentists changed after the CDC tightened prescribing guidelines in 2016, the study authors said.
Dental patients most likely to be overprescribed opioids -- those aged 18 to 34, men, those in the South, and those receiving
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