Virtually everyone who has had a dental procedure, be it an aggressive cleaning or a tooth extraction, knows that it can be quite painful. The same is true for your pet. This is why your veterinarian might use a combination of pain control measures before, during and after dentistry. Using a combination of different types of analgesics is known as multi-modal pain control, which provides the safest and most effective way to minimize pain.

Pain control is an essential component of all dental procedures. For maximum efficacy pain management should be utilized pre-, intra- and post-operatively. It is important to use multi-modal pain control that addresses various points in the pain pathway and targets specific anatomic regions. This approach reduces the need for high doses of single analgesics and achieves superior analgesia with fewer side effects.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the largest threats to global health. Antibiotic resistance means that bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics; antibiotics become ineffective and infections become more difficult or impossible to treat, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, disability and death (WHO, 2024). The main reasons for the crisis of AMR are the overuse and misuse of antibiotics combined with inadequate infection prevention.