Oxycodone for acute dental pain?

shutterstock_32144176

This review of the efficacy of oxycodone for post-operative acute dental pain included 13 studies. the findings showed that NSAIDs are generally superior for post-surgical dental pain, with a better adverse effect profile,so the need for oxycodone in dentistry is limited.

[read the full story...]

Botulinum toxin and idiopathic dentoalveolar pain

Botulinum toxin

This review of the use of botulinum toxin (BONT-A) for pain-relief in patients with persistent idiopathic dentoalveolar pain included just 3 small uncontrolled studies providing a very limited amounh of very low quality evidence.

[read the full story...]