Clinical pharmacology in dentistry
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Clinical pharmacology in dentistry
（Dental series）
Churchill Livingstone, 1989
5th ed
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text attempts to reconcile the predominantly technical nature of the dentist's training with the medical problems he has to assess and manage. A clinical approach to the subject has been adopted with an effort to relate it to the medicine and surgery courses. To ensure its relevance, the book provides some basic knowledge of pharmacology to increase understanding of the drugs and how they act, to assist in the dealing with emergencies and to inform the dentist of the threats to the dental patient under medical treatment.
Table of Contents
- Drugs - administration,absorption and fate
- prescribing and the Misuse of Drugs Act
- the management of infections
- antiseptics, anti-caries agents and related drugs used in routine dentistry
- the nervous system - the neuromuscular junction and the automatic nervous system
- the nervous system - depressants of cerebral function
- the nervous system - analgesics and drug dependence
- general anaesthesia and sedation
- local analgesia
- the cardiovascular system
- the respiratory system
- the blood
- drugs affecting allergic reactions and the immune response
- antitumour drugs, cytotoxic chemotherapy
- hormones and the skeleton
- nutrition, vitamins
- the alimentary system
- toxic effects of drugs
- emergencies in dental practice. Appendices: the antibiotic prophylaxis of infective endocarditis
- viral hepatitis B - high-risk groups.
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