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Topics in Oral and Dental version 1
Principles of diagnosis and prescribing
Prescriptions and prescription-writing
Getting to know your drugs
Dental management of patients taking medications
Dental caries
Periodontal disease
Halitosis
Oral mucosal disease
Acute odontogenic infections
Antibiotic prophylaxis
Post-treatment pain management
Local anaesthesia
Oral sedation
Medical emergencies
Appendices
Abbreviations and acronyms
Glossary
Principles of diagnosis and prescribing
- History
- Examination and investigations
- Management
Prescriptions and prescription-writing
- The process of rational treatment
- Patient factors
- Principles of prescribing
- Overprescribing and underprescribing
- The prescription
- The prescription and the patient
- Sources of drug information
- Legislation about prescriptions and prescribing
Getting to know your drugs
- Antimicrobials
- General considerations
- Potential problems with antibiotics
- Antimicrobial choice
- Modes of delivery
- Duration of therapy
- Antibacterial drugs
- Beta lactams
- Nitroimidazoles
- Glycopeptides
- Lincosamides
- Macrolides
- Tetracyclines
- Antifungal drugs
- Antiviral drugs
- Guanine analogues
- Thymidine analogues
- Analgesics
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- General considerations
- Individual nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Paracetamol
- Opioids (narcotics)
- Corticosteroids
- Intradental corticosteroids
- Topical corticosteroids
- General principles of topical corticosteroid use
- Adverse effects
- Systemic corticosteroids
- Local anaesthetics (local analgesics)
- General considerations
- Adverse effects of local anaesthetics
- Choosing a local anaesthetic
- Use of vasoconstrictors
- Local anaesthetic drugs
- Lignocaine
- Prilocaine
- Articaine
- Mepivacaine
- Bupivacaine
- Vasoconstrictors
- Sedative and hypnotic drugs
- Benzodiazepines
- Antihistamines
- Trimeprazine
- Promethazine
- dependence, tolerance and addiction
- Mouthwashes
- Use of alcohol in mouthwashes
- Individual agents
- Chlorhexidine
- Povidone-iodine
- Triclosan
- Benzydamine
- Further reading
Dental management of patients taking medications
- Cardiovascular conditions
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension
- Coronary ischaemic disease
- Angina
- Myocardial infarction
- Dental issues
- Heart failure
- Cardiomyopathy
- Dental issues
- Respiratory conditions
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Endocrine conditions
- Diabetes
- Thyroid disorders
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Dental issues
- Adrenal disorders
- Osteoporosis
- Dental issues: osteonecrosis of the jaws
- Neurological conditions
- Stroke
- Epilepsy
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Viral diseases
- Viral hepatitis
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- Head and neck cancer
- Chemotherapy
- Chronic musculoskeletal disorders
- Dental issues
- Temporomandibular disorders
- Psychological and psychiatric disorders
- Further reading
Dental caries
- Treatment
- Fluoride
- Chlorhexidine
- Casein phosphopeptide stabilised amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP)
- Further reading
Periodontal disease
- Gingivitis
- Periodontitis
- Acute ulcerative gingivitis
- Periodontal abscess
- Further reading
Halitosis
- Management
- Further reading
Oral mucosal disease
- Mucosal discolourations
- Leukoplakia
- Oral lichen planus
- Geographic tongue
- Hairy tongue
- Oral hairy leukoplakia
- Ulcerative conditions
- Aphthous ulcers
- Viral ulcers and herpes gingivostomatitis
- Mucous membrane pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris
- Erythema multiforme
- Fungal infections
- Oral candidosis
- Angular cheilitis
- Oral mucositis and xerostomia
- Oral mucositis
- Xerostomia
- Further reading
Acute odontogenic infections
- Localised dental infection
- Treatment of localised odontogenic infections
- Spreading dental infections
- Superficial infections
- Deep infections
- Post–dentoalveolar surgery infection
- Management
- Alveolar osteitis (dry socket)
Antibiotic prophylaxis
- Prevention of endocarditis
- Prevention of infection in joint prostheses
- Dentoalveolar procedures
- Tooth extraction
- Implants
- Further reading
Post-treatment pain management
- Understanding pain
- Principles of use of analgesics
- Use of analgesics in dentistry
- Pain management strategies
- Post-treatment pain management in adults
- Post-treatment pain management in children
- Further reading
Local anaesthesia
- Potential complications of local anaesthetics
- Further reading
Oral sedation
Assessment of patients for sedation
- Preparation of patients for sedation
- Dose of drugs used for sedation
- Management
- Further reading
Medical emergencies
- Cardiovascular emergencies
- Syncope
- Coronary ischaemia
- Angina
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Cardiac arrest
- Respiratory emergencies
- Hyperventilation syndrome (gaseous alkalosis)
- Acute asthma
- Inhaled or swallowed objects
- Prevention of inhaled or swallowed objects
- Obstruction of the airway
- Neurological emergencies
- Endocrine emergencies
- Diabetes
- Hypoglycaemia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Addisonian (adrenal) crisis
- Allergies
- Causes
- Antibiotic hypersensitivity
- Latex allergy
- Allergic reaction to local anaesthetics
- Food allergy
- Types of allergic reactions
- Urticaria
- Angioedema
- Anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions
- Emergency drugs and equipment
- Drugs and equipment required by dental practitioners for emergencies
- Further reading
Appendices
- Drugs and sport
- Dental procedures and drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Abbreviations and acronyms
Glossary Electronic version
Therapeutic Guidelines: Oral and Dental will available in electronic format as part of eTG complete in the July 2007 release.
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