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How Poor Oral Hygiene Affects Your Mental Health and the Reverse
Taking care of your teeth and mouth is generally more than just keeping your teeth clean and breath smelling good. Your mental health must allow you to take care of your oral health. Studies have...
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Current Perspectives on Opioid Prescribing
Recently, both insurance companies and politicians in the U.S. have intensified their efforts to limit patients undergoing wisdom teeth surgery to have access to opioids to manage their pain. See the...
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Dental Anxiety and Fear: Impact on Oral Health
An interesting article titled “From public mental health to community oral health: the impact of dental anxiety and fear on dental status,” by Crego et al. appears in frontiers in Public Health (vol....
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Oral Surgery: Prepare Yourself for Post-Surgery Complications
Do you need oral surgery? You have to prepare yourself before undergoing any oral surgery procedure to avoid complications. By preparing yourself, you can get the advantage of a speedy recovery. Oral...
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Forensic Age Estimation using Wisdom Teeth
Recently there has been a lot of discussion of immigration of migrants into the United States of America. Many times young children who travel to the U.S. are migrants seeking asylum but there age is...
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Using Panoramic X-Rays of Lower Wisdom Teeth to Legally Prove if Someone is...
According to two 2010 studies it is possible to use a panoramic x-ray of lower wisdom teeth to prove if someone is older than 18 years old and also to prove if someone is older than 21 years old....
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The Death Rate Among Patients being Treated by Oral Surgeons in Massachusetts
In the past on this site death surrounding wisdom teeth removal and other dental procedures has been discussed. It has been estimated that the death rate in dentistry occurs in 1 out of every 400,000...
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Do Oral Surgeons Give Too Many Opioids for Wisdom Teeth Removal?
An interesting article titled “Do Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Over-Prescribe Opioids After Extraction of Asymptomatic Third Molars?” written by Resnick et al. appears in the 2019 edition of the...
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Important Studies on Opioid Prescribing: Implications for Dentistry
Recently on this site several articles have appeared discussing opioid prescribing after wisdom teeth removal see for example the posts Do Oral Surgeons Give Too Many Opioids for Wisdom Teeth Removal?...
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The Real Truth About Dentistry
An intriguing long form piece appears in the May 2019 issue in Atlantic titled “The Truth About Dentistry: It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think,”...
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Changes in Dental Anxiety over Time
An interesting article titled “Changes in dental anxiety among 15‐ to 21‐year‐olds. A 2‐year longitudinal analysis based on the Tromsø study: Fit futures” written by Nermo et al. appears in Community...
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Reasons Why You Should Look Into Cosmetic Dentistry
Aesthetic dentistry has many advantages to offer. That is why it’s so popular. Smile fillings are so affordable nowadays that almost anyone can improve their smile one way or another through aesthetic...
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Indications for Removal of Wisdom Teeth
These days in 2019 the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) has a page on their website titled “Third Molar Research News” that contains information on how to manage wisdom...
View ArticleOral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Utilizing New Methods To Reach Patients for...
According to the March/April 2019 and May/June 2019 editions of AAOMS Today, the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) is utilizing new methods to reach patients for wisdom...
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Does a Patient’s Psychological Profile Influence Pain Experienced by Wisdom...
An interesting article titled “Does Psychological Profile Influence Third Molar Extraction and Postoperative Pain?” appears in the 2017 edition of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery written...
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Improving the Mental Health of Oral Surgeons
Before on this site mental health of dentists has been discussed and particularly addressing mental health issues early on such as during dental education see for example the posts A Counseling Model...
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Updated Sedation Guidelines in Dentistry for Children
Recently new guidelines have been issued regarding the use of sedation for dental procedures performed on children. In the past on this site some scrutiny has been placed on sedation provided to...
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Risks of Keeping Wisdom Teeth: Infected Wisdom Tooth Removal Leads to Sepsis
Recently a case of a 25 year old woman from England who developed an infected wisdom tooth has been reported. The woman had the infected wisdom tooth removed in December 2018 after repeated infections...
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Delivering Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment in Dental Practices
An interesting article titled “Dentist-Perceived Barriers and Attractors to Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Provided by Mental Health Providers in Dental Practices,” written by Heyman et al. appears in...
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Profit Motives in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Utilizing Sedation
Recently on this site it was discussed how guidelines have come out from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommending when deep sedation or...
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