Dental and Oral Health Expert Viewpoints

• Management Strategies for Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders Clinicians involved in screening, diagnosing, referring, and/or managing patients with OPMDs should be well versed in the latest standards of care. Joel Laudenbach reviews a recent report.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, March 2018
• Adjunctive Cytologic Testing for Oral Cavity Lesions An oral health clinician who elects to use cytologic testing should be keenly aware of the limitations of each brand of test, especially in primary care dental settings.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, December 2017
• Oral Cancer Screen: Technique for Autofluorescence Interpretation For clinicians new to using autofluorescence for oral screening, this research offers an analytic technique to help discriminate between oral cancer/precancerous lesions and normal oral mucosa.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, September 2017
• Managing Intraoral Injection Fear in Children and Adolescents A newly published study offers an approach to helping children and teens who are particularly fearful of intraoral injections. Joel M. Laudenbach, DMD, offers his perspective.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, August 2017
• Malignant Potential of Oral Lichen Planus/Lichenoid Lesions This new meta-analysis supports the concept that OLP and OLLs are associated with a small, yet measurable, increased risk for malignant transformation.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, May 2017
• Antibiotics Before Dental Care in Patients With Prosthetic Joints Should patients with prosthetic joints undergo antibiotic prophylaxis before dental procedures? This tool may help with that decision.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, April 2017
• Time to End Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Infective Endocarditis? Dr Amal Mattu questions whether we should continue to provide antibiotic prophylaxis to patients who are undergoing various medical procedures.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, December 2016
• Dentistry and the Opioid Epidemic Dentists are frequent prescribers of prescription drugs for pain following dental procedures. What is their role in fighting the opioid epidemic?
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, August 2016
• Oral Appliance Therapy in OSA: A Better Way to Ensure Success The identification of physiologic traits that contribute to obstructive sleep apnea brings us closer to individualized treatment, but how many sleep centers have the expertise to measure these traits?
  Medscape Critical Care, August 2016
• Why Has Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists Increased? Dentists have lagged behind physicians in reducing antibiotic prescribing and need to get on board with antimicrobial stewardship.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, August 2016
• Oral Health and Nutraceuticals: Can Green Tea Treat Herpes? A topical green tea product is compared with placebo in patients with recurrent herpes labialis.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, April 2016
• Should Dentists Screen Patients for Diabetes? Some people are more likely to see a dentist than a medical provider. With rising rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, Eric Stoopler argues that the dental office is a good place to screen for high blood glucose.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, January 2016
• How Often Do Dentists See Orofacial Pain? A study assessed the prevalence of orofacial pain in dental practices, the conditions associated with orofacial pain, and the characteristics of patients with these complaints.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, November 2015
• The Importance of the Medication History in Oral Healthcare Many people, especially older adults, are taking numerous prescription and OTC drugs, which the oral health provider needs to know about.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, September 2015
• Who, What, and Where of Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing One study reveals who is overprescribing antibiotics, and another shows that it's possible to reduce prescribing of high-risk antibiotics.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), June 2015
• Patient Understanding of Oral Healthcare Jargon A significant number of patients have limited understanding of the terms used by oral and maxillofacial specialists when discussing diagnosis and treatment.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, June 2015
• Oral Medicine in the 21st Century Patients with oral symptoms and diseases often go months without appropriate management. Which patients should be referred to an oral medicine provider?
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, June 2015
• Systemic Complications Are Common in Sjögren Syndrome A retrospective review of patients with Sjogren syndrome underlines the need for ophthalmologists to screen for this disorder as soon as its tell-tale signs present.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, June 2015
• Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Patients With Prosthetic Joints These updated evidence-based clinical practice guidelines will prove useful to oral healthcare practitioners.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, February 2015
• Oral Health and the Child With Cerebral Palsy Children with CP often have motor disabilities and need assistance with brushing. Seeing an oral health provider regularly is paramount.
  Medscape Dental & Oral Health, December 2014