U-M School of Dentistry's Romesh Nalliah on opioid prescriptions after tooth extraction by U of Michigan News published on 2020-03-10T17:35:44Z The use of opioids to soothe the pain of a pulled tooth could be drastically reduced or eliminated altogether from dentistry, say University of Michigan researchers. More than 325 dental patients who had teeth pulled were asked to rate their pain and satisfaction within six months of extraction. Roughly half of the study's patients who had surgical extraction and 39% who had routine extraction were prescribed opioids.
