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Not to mention, there are plenty of safer viable alternatives. Is ibuprofen or acetaminophen as effective at preventing pain as oxycodone for most people? Proba
by vinay427 9y ago
Not to mention, there are plenty of safer viable alternatives. Is ibuprofen or acetaminophen as effective at preventing pain as oxycodone for most people? Probably not, but they're good enough for most wisdom teeth extractions, a common operation that unfortunately results in many opioid addictions. I had some particularly difficult extractions so I took some ibuprofen for a few weeks to make eating manageable, but avoided the oxycodone-acetaminophen I was prescribed once I left the doctor's office. When I reported this, the nurse who checked in on me was surprisingly taken aback, but to me, the potential consequences of opioid use to better mitigate temporary pain seem irresponsibly high.
- rsynnott 9y agoDo dentists in the US actually give out opioid painkillers for wisdom teeth extraction?
- syshum 9y ago10-12 years ago I would get small dose (5mg or less) Hydrocodone for an infected tooth or pre-root canal Today it is just high dose ibuprofen, luckily I have pretty good dental insurance now (did not in my late teens and early 20s) so I do not need the dentist for anything more than cleanings but I do think my luck that I went through that pain back then instead of now, taking high does IB would not have let me sleep back in those days as I had to wait for the Antibiotics to kill the infection before they could remove or fill the tooth, that took anywhere from 2 to 7 days (had 2 infected teeth a couple years apart, I was hard on my teeth in youth, a lesson learned the hard way)
- vinay427 9y agoFor what it's worth, I was prescribed the oxycodone-acetaminophen combination last month for an extraction of my four wisdom teeth in the US. My extractions were apparently some of the hardest in the surgeon's 30 years, so I'm not sure if this is the norm.