. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 19.

Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2016 Apr 19;315(15):1653–1654. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.19058

Table 2.

Amount of Oral Morphine Equivalents Dispensed Following Tooth Extraction by Procedure Type Among Medicaid Patients (N = 693 702)^a^,^b

	Dispensed Morphine Equivalents, mg
	Median (IQR) [10th–90th Percentile]
Overall cohort	120 (90–150) [75–225]
By procedure
Surgical extraction of nonimpacted tooth	113 (90–150) [68–225]
Removal of impacted tooth
Soft tissue	120 (100–150) [75–225]
Partially bony	140 (100–160) [75–225]
Completely bony	150 (100–188) [80–225]
Completely bony with unusual surgical complications	150 (113–210) [90–250]
Surgical removal of residual tooth roots	125 (98–180) [75–276]

Data were from the Medicaid Analytic eXtract.¹

Oral morphine equivalents calculated based on the following study: Von Korff M, Saunders K, Thomas Ray G, et al. De facto long-term opioid therapy for noncancer pain. Clin J Pain. 2008;24(6):521–527.