Overview
This module explores the management of post operative patient for the dental patient. The module will review various treatment options to manage post operative dental pain, provide traditional options to management post operative dental pain as well as alternatives for contraindications to traditional therapies.
Learning Objectives
After completing this module, learners will be able to:
- Understand rationale for single drug entities
- Understand rationale for multimodal therapy
- Learn options for pain management for patients with contraindications to traditional therapies
- Understand the various patient factors that will impact medication decisions
- Understand various medication factors that will impact medication selections
- Understand which medications are no longer recommended to manage acute pain
Module Author
Susan Somerset DMD, PharmD, MS
University of Colorado, School of Dental Medicine
Susan Somerset is the course director for Adults with Special Health Care Needs, co-director for Treatment of the Medically Complex Dental Patient, and co-director for the Senior & Special Care Dental Clinic. She completed her DMD at Temple University and holds a certificate from the Christiana Care Medical Center for her General Practice Residency. Dr. Somerset obtained a MS from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where she worked with patients with Multiple Sclerosis on a grant from the Department of Defense. She also holds a BS and a PharmD degree from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She works with the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention.
She has worked in multiple hospitals and in drug information and global safety for pharmaceutical industry. Her experience in dentistry includes working in private practice, FQHCs and hospital dentistry. She has been caring for patients with special healthcare needs and the medically complex for over 14 years and has experience treating patients from 2 years old to 86 years young in an operating room setting. She lectures nationally on topics of pharmacology and special care dentistry and has a consultant appointment with the US Navy Department of Periodontology.