Main description:

This book is written mainly for Undergraduate Dental Students. Its user-friendly format provides knowledge of pharmacology without extraneous details-as needed by BDS students. The book will also be useful for practicing Dentists and Pharmacy students.

Meets the requirement of the syllabus proposed by Dental Council of India (DCI)
Includes drugs with dose, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, drug interactions and therapeutic uses
Supplemented with the addition of some new topics like Pharmacovigilance and Drug Dosage Forms
Contains important medical emergencies in dental practice and oral side effects of drugs in tabular format
Large number of diagrams, flowcharts and tables will facilitate quick learning and greater retention of the concepts
Thoroughly updated edition that highlights the important aspects of pharmacology for students pursuing undergraduate courses in Dentistry

Contents:

Chapter 1: General Pharmacology

Chapter 2: Drug Dosage Forms

Chapter 3: Drugs Acting on Autonomic Nervous System

Chapter 4: Drugs Affecting Cardiovascular Function

Chapter 5: Renal Pharmacology

Chapter 6: Drugs Acting on Central Nervous System

Chapter 7: Autacoids and Respiratory System

Chapter 8: Drugs Used in the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Diseases

Chapter 9: Drugs Acting on Blood and Blood-forming Organs

Chapter 10: Endocrine Pharmacology

Chapter 11: Chemotherapy

Chapter 12: Dental Pharmacology

Chapter 13: Miscellaneous Drugs

Appendix