Dental Anesthesiology and Special Care Research Group

• Local anesthesia: anatomy, pharmacology, and therapy.
• Sedation: general anesthesia, deep sedation, moderate and minimal sedation.
• Pain management: acute and chronic orofacial pain, orofacial cancerous pain and synalgia.

• Intravenous and inhalational sedation.
• Sedation in hospital and ambulatory environments.
• Sedation for all dental procedures, including oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, and general dentistry.

• Basic scientific research in Special Care dentistry (SCD).
• Clinical scientific research in Special Care dentistry (SCD).

DASCR defines Special Care Dentistry research as the field of dental research concerning those individuals with an activity restriction, a health condition and/or a disability that directly or indirectly affects their oral health, within the personal and environmental context of that individual. This population may include patients of all ages, medically compromised patients, persons with disabilities, mental illness, prison populations, refugees, homeless persons, persons with dental anxiety.

• Studies of non-pharmacological behavior support / anxiolysis involving population(s) defined above
• Epidemiological studies involving population(s) defined above
• Intervention studies involving population(s) defined above
• Other research, such as qualitative, involving population defined above

Please visit the following resources that the IADR DASCR Group believes will be of interest to members.

• International Federation of Dental Anesthesiology Societies (IFDAS)
• International Association of Disability and Oral Health
• American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists
• Septodont
• Crisis Prevention Institute