The most common complaint causing a person to seek the services of a health care provider is pain or the closely associated symptom, discomfort. Consequently, the primary obligation and ultimate responsibility of every practitioner of the healing arts is not only to restore health but also to relieve pain. The intent of this course is to present clinicians a rational strategy for the medical management of acute odontogenic pain and to discuss current recommendations for the use of local anesthetic agents and analgesics.
Objectives
Participants in this course will be introduced to evidence-based information that will help them to select the most appropriate therapeutic intervention for the management of acute odontogenic pain and when pharmacotherapy is indicated, to prescribe dose enough, soon enough, often enough, long enough---to prescribe, as they would receive.
Presenter(s)
Disclosure
It is the policy of the UT Health San Antonio Office of Continuing Dental Education to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational activities. All participating speakers, course directors, and planning committee members are required to disclose to the program audience any financial relationships related to the subject matter of this program. Relationships of spouse/partner with proprietary entities producing health care goods or services should be disclosed if they are of a nature that may influence the objectivity of the individual in a position to control the content of the CDE activity. Disclosure information is reviewed in advance in order to manage and resolve any possible conflicts of interest. Specific disclosure information for each speaker, course director, and planning committee member will be shared with the audience prior to the speaker’s presentation.
Continuing Dental Education Staff members have nothing to disclose.