Opioid guidelines for common dental surgical procedures: a multidisciplinary panel consensus.

ABSTRACT: One in 16 patients prescribed opioids after a surgical procedure will become a long-term user. The lack of procedure-specific guidelines after common dental procedures contributes to the opioid overprescribing problem. We convened a multidisciplinary panel to develop consensus recommendations for opioid prescribing after common dental procedures. We used a three-step modified Delphi method to develop a consensus recommendation for outpatient opioid prescribing for 14 common dental procedures. The multi-institution, multidisciplinary panel represented seven relevant stakeholder groups (oral surgeons, periodontists, endodontists, general dentists, general surgeons, oral surgery residents, and oral surgery patients). The panel determined the minimum and maximum number of opioid tablets a clin

SUBMITTER: Farooqi OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8771805 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature