Opioid Prescription Patterns After Rhinoplasty

To the Editor We read with great interest the study by Sethi et al on Opioid Prescription Patterns After Rhinoplasty. The authors' scientific methodology was creative and insightful. As you know, we published a similarly titled study in November of 2017. To our knowledge, this was the first study in our field to discuss the impact of opioids and scientifically suggest a methodology for altering prescribing patterns. The study by Sethi et al is remarkable in that it used a public resource available to physicians in almost every state: prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). While noting that the overall refill rate is lower than a physician would expect is important, we feel the cornerstone of our role in the epidemic lies in 3 separate realizations.

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