An ABC News story that aired July 12 took a hard-hitting look at the potential risks of pediatric dental sedation, alleging that, in some cases, undertrained dentists motivated primarily by profits ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) have updated their guidelines for safely sedating pediatric patients, as published in Pediatrics. The ...

A new study published in the journal of the BMC Oral Health showed that for preschool-aged children receiving dental ...

In the past 15 months, four pediatric patients have died in the U.S. after undergoing sedation prior to dental treatment -- a tragic reminder of the need to ensure proper sedation training and ...

Dr. Stuart Waite is chairman of the Department of Dental Medicine at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. Trips to the operating room are not always for surgery, broken bones and stitches. Sometimes they are the ...

(HealthDay)—Guidelines have been updated for monitoring and management of pediatric patients before, during, and after sedation, according to a clinical report published online June 27 in Pediatrics.

A new Penn Nursing study suggests that the specific sedatives used during critical illness in early childhood may have long-term implications for a child's neurocognitive development. Martha A.Q.

A three-gene signature to predict survival in pediatric osteosarcoma (OS) to follow patients toward liquid biopsy: A collaborative work in OS2006 protocol. Effective targeted antitumor activity of the ...