Oral health professionals need to be prepared to detect and manage the many oral manifestations of these pharmaceuticals.

While the utilization of these cosmetic enhancements has become more prevalent in the dental setting, their use is not without risk.

As more patients begin taking biologics and their generic counterparts, oral health professionals need to be knowledgeable about their indications, adverse reactions, and risk of interactions with other medications in order to provide safe…

Transmucosal drug delivery provides an alternative to traditional enteral, intravenous, or intramuscular routes of medication administration.

Oral health professionals need to be familiar with bisphosphonates and other antiresorptive medications due to their impact on dental health.

Improving communication between providers, increasing use of alternative pain control mechanisms, and creating evidence-based prescribing guidelines will reduce the unintended distribution of prescription opioids.

With a continued rise in the use of off-label drug therapies, oral health professionals need to be aware of related legal and ethical considerations.

Clinicians need to understand the signs and symptoms of opioid abuse and engage in efforts to curtail it.

As complications of medication use negatively impact oral comfort, function, and quality of life, clinicians should assess patients' drug regimens to determine oral health risks.

Oral health professionals need to be aware of the systemic and oral health effects of the substances in this class of drugs.