by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Jan 20, 2017 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
After oral surgery, some people experience more pain than others. According to a recent study, this pain has a strong positive correlation with opioid-induced nausea and vomiting. This was found based on a post hoc analysis of clinical trial data that was originally...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Dec 22, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
If you think going to the dentist is a pain now, you’d hate to experience some of the earliest forms of dentistry. While it’s hard to imagine oral surgery without anesthesia, medications and more, oral surgery actually began at a time when these advancements didn’t...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Nov 11, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
Anesthesia is a key discipline in the world of medicine and healthcare today. It took hundreds of years to develop, and only up until about 1800, there was no effort made by doctors to relieve people’s pain during surgery. Individual doctors had methods to dull...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Oct 13, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
There is a pretty good chance that your child’s teeth might look perfectly fine to you, because who could imagine a toddler two, three, or four years old having cavities in their teeth? With a total of 20 baby teeth, it seems that a child who has yet to have started...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Aug 22, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
Could a dental infection have anything to do with heart disease? A study conducted in Finland found that this may be so. While these two health issues seem like an unlikely pair, researchers at the University of Helsinki found that in a study of heart disease...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Jul 8, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
A study from Okayama University Hospital in Japan, recently published by Anesthesia Progress, a journal from the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, shows that women need higher rates of sedation for oral surgery. Sedation is a good solution for minimizing...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Jul 1, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
As someone working in oral surgery, oral pathology and biopsies are a large part of my work. Treatment and biopsies of lesions, ulcers, masses, cysts, and other pathology conditions are part all part of an oral surgeon’s repertoire. While there are many varieties of...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Jun 3, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
Most people know that it is important for professional athletes to wear mouthguards for proper oral protection, but far fewer people think that the practice is necessary for young athletes in middle or high school. In fact, it is even more important for young athletes...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | May 9, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
When we think of oral surgery, we typically think of tooth extractions. After all, the majority of people need to get their wisdom teeth removed so it makes sense that our minds would gravitate toward this very common practice. But there are a number of other types of...
by Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi | Mar 18, 2016 | Dr. H. Ryan Kazemi's Blog
Pain induced by medical procedures can be heightened by our own personal anxieties and fears, but modern anesthesia is intended to help manage this pain. Anesthesia allows practitioners to perform complex surgeries in the comfort of a dental office, rather than a...