Handbook of Dental Therapeutics

Handbook of Dental Therapeutics is an essential text that provides succinct, clinically relevant information about drugs in dentistry.

Leanne Teoh (Author), Geraldine Moses (Author), Michael McCullough (Author)

9781009060059, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 March 2024

366 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.65 kg

Dentists require a comprehensive understanding of drugs used in clinical practice in order to safely prescribe and manage medication use in their patients. Handbook of Dental Therapeutics provides practical coverage of drugs in dentistry. This text draws together the latest recommendations for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, covering common drugs dentists administer and prescribe, perioperative management considerations, oral adverse effects and drug safety. Dedicated chapters on how therapeutics affect children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and elderly patients enable readers to prescribe and administer medications across the lifespan. Concisely written, the text is a practical guide which includes dosage recommendations and practice points. Diagrams, graphs and tables summarise complex information to ensure readers have readily accessible information on the drugs most commonly used in dentistry. Handbook of Dental Therapeutics is an essential text that equips dental students and dentists with succinct, clinically relevant information about all aspects of drugs in dentistry.

1. Basic concepts in pharmacology and therapeutics
2. Prescribing essentials
3. Drug allergy versus adverse reactions
4. Antimicrobials
5. Analgesics and anti-inflammatories
6. Anxiolytics
7. Local anaesthesia
8. Topical medications
9. Drugs associated with increased bleeding risk
10. Drugs associated with medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw
11. Peri-procedural medicines management
12. Prescribing for children and adolescents
13. Drugs in the elderly
14. Drugs in pregnancy and lactation
15. Oral adverse drug effects
16. Emergency medicines.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]