Alternative pain management

Dr. Curtis Hayes is honored to be selected by peers to serve on a committee providing dental-specific “best practice guidelines” of non-opioid treatments for the CO CURE Project. The CO CURE Project The CO CURE is a project from the Colorado Hospital Association, Colorado Medical Society and Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention launched to address the opioid epidemic in Colorado. CURE stands for "Clinicians United to Resolve the Epidemic". CO CURE brings together various specialties committed to resolving the opioid epidemic in Colorado by developing targeted and specific guidelines. CO CURE has partnered with several major healthcare associations…

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With a nationwide opioid crisis, Dr. Hayes takes his role in preventing exposure to opioids very seriously. When he shifted his medical practice from the Air Force to his own private practice as a civilian, Dr. Hayes spent a great deal of time researching safer solutions to pain management after oral surgery. "I started looking around at different options and as I was reading the medical journals...the OBGYN world was using a medication for C-sections so that they wouldn’t have to give narcotics to mothers, and so we were able to transition that into the oral surgery field, and try…

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The opioid crisis in the United States is very real. In 2015, the state recorded a record 472 deaths from opioid overdoses. In this video, Dr. Hayes talks about how he is doing his part to prevent an opioid addiction by using updated pain management medication local to the area the procedure was performed. Learn more about this approach in the video below. "My name is Dr. Curt Hayes. I am a USAFA (United States Air Force Academy) class of '99. I'm currently in the reserves stationed as an IMA up in Cheyenne at FE Warren. I opened up Coal…

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