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Orally dissolving medications containing buprenorphine are linked to severe dental problems, including total tooth loss, the FDA warns.

Dental surgeries such as extractions may need to be delayed in patients with diabetes who have recovered from COVID-19 to avoid thrombosis.

Few patients regret having a severely damaged tooth saved by a root canal filling. A University of Gothenburg thesis shows that 87 percent would choose the same treatment again, if in need, although pain and discomfort around the tooth are common.

William Stork needs a tooth out. That's what the 71-year-old retired truck driver's dentist told him during a recent checkup.

Been deadly. >> we need to balance these concerns, with chronic pain conditions to whom opioids are the only drugs are going to wor work. cancer pain, other kinds of conditions, and we still see too much dispensing of opioids, particularly prescriptions that are written for durations of use that are too long for the medical purpose in which the drugs being prescribed in the first place. we're trying to work on guidelines to positions not just to try and reduce prescribing, to rationalize it, but make sure that if they dispense that they do it in the appropriate number of pills for the conditio...