Highlight the importance of preoperative patient fear and anxiety and its link to pain experienced, demonstrating the need for patient assessment and engagement surrounding perioperative pain management, outlining the benefits of patient satisfaction

1. Emphasize the need for individualized pain management in the oral surgery setting, with consideration of all available analgesic modalities;
2. Illustrate the substantial impact of dental prescribing patterns on the availability of opioid medications;
3. Describe the physiological effects of opioid use, and the importance of their consideration when adopting particular pain management approaches; and
4. Provide guidance on effective patient communication regarding opioid use and disposal;
5. Highlight the drawbacks of current pain management approaches, and demonstrate the benefits of considering pre-, intra-, and post-operative care as a single episode of care; and
6. Outline currently available opioid-reducing pain management strategies, and facilitate their implementation in oral surgery procedures.