Introduction Opioid abuse is one of the major burdens of the US healthcare system. Every year, millions of citizens are diagnosed with opioid abuse; the outcomes of it are often fatal. Among other healthcare practitioners, dentists are accountable for prescribing many types of opioid analgesics. Whereas many patients may about their real symptoms to obtain the desired prescription, some physicians do not follow all the necessary precautions to avoid the problem of overprescription. The problem of opioid overuse in the USA has become highly acute, and effective solutions are crucial to mitigate the growing risk. Hence, it is crucial to evaluate the level of prescriptions among dentists and outline the possible ways of reducing them. The present paper argues that dentists need enhanced training on pain management and should implement innovative technologies to manage their patients’ prescriptions to avoid adverse outcomes. Opioid Prescription in Dentistry The scope of dentists’ practice involves a variety of skills and operations, including treatment, surgery, and pain relief. The latter is an especially crucial issue since it involves prescribing opioids to patients with the aim of minimizing their pain. Research indicates that many dental specialists fail to adhere to the suggested opioid prescription guidelines (Lutfiyya, Gross, Schvaneveldt, Woo, & Lipsky, 2018). The aspects of dentists’ approaches to the process of narcotic prescription will be discussed in detail below. In the USA, dentists prescribe analgesic opioids to their patients extensively. As Steinmetz, Zheng, Okunseri, Szabo, and Okunseri (2017) report, the growing number of such prescriptions is becoming a serious public health concern in the country. There are several risks associated with excessive opioid prescriptions in dentistry. First, dental patients tend to have opioid leftovers frequently, which makes them vulnerable to narcotic misuse and overuse (Lutfiyya et al., 2018). Second, there is reported disproportionality in dentists’ prescriptions by age. For instance, more than 30% of all prescriptions are written for adolescents (Lutfiyya et al., 2018). For patients of this age, such practice is particularly dangerous since even one opioid prescription has the potential to raise the “lifetime risk for future opioid abuse” (Lutfiyya et al., 2018, p. 1012). Reasons for Prescribing Antibiotics It is vital to note that dentists prescribe opioids for compelling reasons. For example, Baker, Avorn, Levin, and Bateman (2016) report that it is highly common to prescribe opioid analgesics after surgical tooth extraction. This issue can be considered problematic as opioids are not the most effective option for pain reduction. Although there is no sufficient data on nationwide statistics of opioid prescribing upon this procedure, researchers note that there are non-narcotic alternatives that can show similar results in patients, too. For example, Baker et al. (2016) report that the combination of acetaminophen and nonsteroidal medications has the potential to provide effective analgesia for dentists’ post-operative patients. Therefore, although dentists have no legal restrictions to prescribing op