Logo

Log In Sign Up |  An official publication of: American College of Emergency Physicians
Navigation
  • Home
  • Multimedia
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
  • Clinical
    • Airway Managment
    • Case Reports
    • Critical Care
    • Guidelines
    • Imaging & Ultrasound
    • Pain & Palliative Care
    • Pediatrics
    • Resuscitation
    • Trauma & Injury
  • Resource Centers
    • mTBI Resource Center
  • Career
    • Practice Management
      • Benchmarking
      • Reimbursement & Coding
      • Care Team
      • Legal
      • Operations
      • Quality & Safety
    • Awards
    • Certification
    • Compensation
    • Early Career
    • Education
    • Leadership
    • Profiles
    • Retirement
    • Work-Life Balance
  • Columns
    • ACEP4U
    • Airway
    • Benchmarking
    • Brief19
    • By the Numbers
    • Coding Wizard
    • EM Cases
    • End of the Rainbow
    • Equity Equation
    • FACEPs in the Crowd
    • Forensic Facts
    • From the College
    • Images in EM
    • Kids Korner
    • Medicolegal Mind
    • Opinion
      • Break Room
      • New Spin
      • Pro-Con
    • Pearls From EM Literature
    • Policy Rx
    • Practice Changers
    • Problem Solvers
    • Residency Spotlight
    • Resident Voice
    • Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine
    • Sound Advice
    • Special OPs
    • Toxicology Q&A
    • WorldTravelERs
  • Resources
    • ACEP.org
    • ACEP Knowledge Quiz
    • Issue Archives
    • CME Now
    • Annual Scientific Assembly
      • ACEP14
      • ACEP15
      • ACEP16
      • ACEP17
      • ACEP18
      • ACEP19
    • Annals of Emergency Medicine
    • JACEP Open
    • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Medical Editor in Chief
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Awards
    • Authors
    • Article Submission
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Subscribe
    • Privacy Policy
    • Copyright Information

HOT SESSION: Treating Dental Pain in the Emergency Deptartment

By ACEP Now | on October 27, 2014 | 0 Comment
ACEP14 Features
  • Tweet
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Print-Friendly Version

Patients arriving daily at the emergency department with dental pain have forced physicians to adapt their medical practice and equipment. From the beginning of this trend, Kip Benko, MD, FACEP, clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and assistant medical director at McCandless EMS, has been teaching residents, faculty, and advanced-practice providers the essentials of dental blocks and facial anesthesia.

You Might Also Like
  • Hot Session: Discover the Benefits of Regional Blocks
  • HOT SESSION: Fresh Perspective on Pain Management
  • Sometimes Dental Pain Can Be Life Threatening
Explore This Issue
ACEP14 Daily News Tuesday: Vol 33 - No10B - October 2014

“Initially when we started, no one was doing these blocks, and as people began to see more and more patients with dental pain in their emergency department, these blocks have become, really, an indispensable part of their practice,” said Dr. Benko.

The dental blocks and facial anesthetic skills he learned from his dentist father during his third-year residency can be used for dental pain and traumatic facial injuries. Dr. Benko’s illustrative examples include dental pain cases, along with a patient with glass embedded in his forehead from a car accident and another with a lip laceration caused by a cat scratch.

First presented 18 years ago at ACEP’s annual meeting in San Diego, Dr. Benko’s presentation, “Fixing Faces Painlessly: Facial Anesthesia, Regional Blocks,” now includes high-definition video and 3-D images of the complicated nerves of the mouth, face, and jaw. “As video and as imagery has improved, it’s been better able to translate into education and translate into teaching the residents and faculty the best way to perform these blocks,” he said.

Fixing Faces Painlessly:
Facial Anesthesia,
Regional Blocks

Tuesday, Oct. 28

3:30–4:20 p.m.

Skyline Ballroom, Room W375C

The facial anesthesia lecture is a prerequisite for the Emergency Dental Skills Lab, in which Dr. Benko and his University of Pittsburgh colleagues teach 150 conference attendees how to put what they learned from the lecture into practice.

Dr. Benko finds that physicians consider dental patient care very fulfilling: “If [a patient] has a terrible toothache and you do a dental block on them and their pain completely goes away, that patient is just an extremely gratified patient, and it makes the clinician feel very satisfied.”

Francesca Baratta is a freelance writer based in New Jersey.

 

 

Topics: ACEP14Emergency Medicine

Related

  • EM Runs in the Family

    February 26, 2025 - 0 Comment
  • 2019 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the ACEP Council Officer Candidates

    September 24, 2019 - 0 Comment
  • 2019 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

    August 20, 2019 - 0 Comment

Current Issue

ACEP Now May 03

Read More

About the Author

ACEP Now

View this author's posts »

No Responses to “HOT SESSION: Treating Dental Pain in the Emergency Deptartment”

Leave a Reply Cancel Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*
*

Wiley
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • Cookie Preferences
Copyright © 2025 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. ISSN 2333-2603