A Case for a Dental Anesthesia Specialty

A Case for a Dental Anesthesia Specialty

In 1985, the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) Past President and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon (OMS) Norman Trieger quoted findings from the National Institute of Dental Research in his paper The Specialty of Anesthesiology in Dentistry, “It is one if history's ironies that the dental profession continues to bear the onus of pain in many people's minds when, in fact it was the dental profession that pioneered the development and use of the first effective anesthetics.”

Source: Daniel L. Orr II, DDS, MS (anesth), PhD, JD, MD