080113161 DENTAL PHARMACOLOGY ( 2 Crd.Hrs )

Pre-Requisites : 080113151

The intent of this course is to familiarize dental students with the types of drugs their clinical uses, mechanisms of action, their contraindications, drug-drug interactions and side effects that are needed in dental patients to suppress bacterial, fungal and viral infections. It also includes those drugs used to induce local anesthesia with vasoconstrictors, as well as drugs used to induce sedation.The course also covers medications that reduce pain including non-narcotic and narcotic analgesics, locally acting drugs such as obtundants, astringents, antiseptics, mouthwashes sialogogues, anti-sialogogues and drugs used for sterlization. Fluoride and Non-fluoride anticaries agents are also covered in more details, management of medical emergencies in the dental practice, and medical prescriptions of most commonly used drugs in dentistry