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Synopsis
This drug handbook provides concise, easy-to-access drug information for dental professionals and students. Addresses the implications of drugs on dental treatment as well as oral medicine principles and adverse drug effects.
Synopsis
This drug handbook provides concise, easy-to-access drug information for dental professionals and students. The book includes monographs for over 550 drugs. General monographs describe drugs that dental professionals do not prescribe, but that patients might be taking, and that might affect the patient's oral health. Detailed monographs cover drugs that dental professionals prescribe. Examples of prescription writing are included.
A bonus CD-ROM contains all the drug monographs in searchable format, plus printable drug monographs for inclusion in patient charts; full-color photographs of adverse drug effects and selected oral conditions; and information on medical management of pain and odontogenic infections.
Synopsis
Written for dental professionals, the Second Edition of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Dental Drug Reference quickly resolves questions and concerns that arise during patient consults, helping you design appropriate and safe oral health care treatment plans. It focuses on drugs that you're likely to encounter reviewing a patient's medical history as well as drugs that are prescribed for the management of orodental pain, oral infections, and common mucocutaneous conditions. A bonus CD-ROM offers all drug monographs from the handbook in an easy-to-use, searchable format plus printable monographs for inclusion in patient charts. You'll also find an image bank with full-color photographs to help you identify adverse drug effects and oral conditions.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics
General Principles of Pharmacology
Adverse Drug Events (with images on CD)
- Medical Management of Pain (full text on CD only)
- Medical Management of Odontogenic Infections (full text on CD only)
Medical Management of Selected Oral Conditions (includes a few pages from the previous two sections that augment common oral conditions; images on CD)
- Examples of prescription writing
Clinical Medicine Section
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Endocrine diseases
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Genitourinary diseases
- Respiratory diseases
- Central nervous system/autonomic nervous system disorders
- Miscellaneous disease conditions
Management of Medical Emergencies in the Oral Healthcare Setting
Section 2: Drug Information
Image Insert: Top 200 Drugs
A-to-Z Listing of Drugs
Section 3: Appendices
- Drugs Listed by Therapeutic Category
- Abbreviations
- Herbal and Nutraceutical Supplements
- Spanish/English Communication Guidelines
- Oral Rinse Products Without Alcohol
- Dentifrice Without Sodium Laurel Sulfate
- In-office Preventive Products
- Blood Lab Values for Normal Limits
Safe Limits for Dental Surgery/Periodontal Debridement