Pharmacology

• A user-friendly approach makes essential pharmacology concepts even more memorable, featuring a logical organization, comprehensive glossary, chapter outlines and review questions, and informative margin notes.
• Standardized drug information includes a consistent format for each drug group that lists indications, pharmacokinetics, pharmacologic effects, adverse reactions, drug interactions, and dosages.
• Clinical Skills Assessment review questions help you evaluate your knowledge of chapter material.
• Six informative appendixes provide quick access to important information: Top 200 Drugs lists the most-prescribed drugs of 2005; Medical Acronyms familiarizes you with commonly used acronyms; Medical Terminology explains how a drug's name reveals its classification; What If... provides succinct answers to a collection of patient-related questions; Xerostomia and Taste Changes shows a table of drugs that may cause xerostomia and alter tastes; and Natural/Herbal Products discusses what dental professionals need to know about common supplements

• Updated information throughout brings all coverage in line with current practice.

• CD-ROM bound into book presents five cases of varying difficulty with interactive exercises that allow users to plan treatment.
  
• What's the Evidence? boxes link clinical decision-making and treatment planning strategies to current research.
  
• In Clinical Practice boxes highlight specific clinical situations faced by the general dentist.
  
• Review Questions and Suggested Projects, located at the end of each chapter, summarize and reinforce important concepts presented in the book.
  
• Key Terms and Glossary highlights the terms that are most important to the reader.
  
• Suggested Readings lists included at the end of most chapters provide supplemental resources.

• Chapter on Treatment Planning for Smokers and Patients with Oral Cancer addresses the dentist's role in managing patients with oral cancer, recognizing oral cancer and differential diagnosis of oral lesions, planning treatment for patients undergoing cancer therapy, and smoking cessation strategies.
  
• Chapter on Treatment Planning for the Special Care/Special Needs Patient examines the role of the general dentist in the management of patients with a variety of conditions including physical handicaps, mental handicaps, head trauma, hemophilia, and patients' needs before, during, or after major surgery.
  
• Chapter on Treatment Planning for the Alcohol and Substance Abuser discusses the challenges of treating this patient population, as well as how to recognize the problem, delivery of care, scope of treatment, and behavioral/compliance issues.
  
• Expanded content on Ethical and Legal Issues in Treatment Planning reflects new accreditation guidelines.
  
• Dental Team Focus boxes highlight the relevance of chapter content to the dental team.
  
• Ethics Topics boxes emphasize the ethical topics found within each chapter.
  
• International Tooth Numbering is listed alongside the U.S. tooth numbers in examples and illustrations.

Ideal for chairside use by the entire dental team, Mosby's Dental Drug Reference provides guidelines for safe, accurate drug administration. More than 800 drug monographs make it easy to find indications and dosages, contraindications, interactions, side effects, serious reactions, and dental-specific drug information. With profiles of drugs recently approved by the FDA, this edition is completely up to date! A companion Evolve website adds regular drug updates, and a CD offers a full-color pill atlas and printable patient education handouts. From lead editor Arthur Jeske, a well-known researcher and author on dental pharmacology, this pocket-sized reference provides the current, concise drug information you need at the point of care.

• User-friendly, durable, pocket-sized format provides information at a glance, and makes this guide ideal for chairside use.
• More than 800 detailed monographs include each drug's generic name, pronunciation, brand names, drug class, controlled substances schedule, mechanism of action, uses or indications, doses and routes of administration, side effects/adverse reactions, contraindications, precautions, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions of concern to dentistry, and other dental considerations.
• Dental considerations include suggestions for consultations and recommendations for the patient/family in preventing dental complications.
• A companion CD includes a full-color pill atlas, a searchable glossary of terms with pronunciations, illustrations of drug-related pathologic oral conditions, and patient information handouts.
• Useful appendices summarize information such as combination products, food and herbal interactions, pregnancy and pediatric considerations, and IV compatibilities and incompatibilities.
• The companion Evolve website includes patient teaching guides, a full-color pill atlas, all appendices from the text, alternative medicine information, and regular updates to the book.

• New monographs for recently FDA approved drugs include up-to-date dental considerations.
• More emphasis on oral health, prevention, and treatment from the dental hygienist's perspective helps in educating the patient.
• Stronger coverage of oral contraceptives includes brand names with generic names when possible.
• A list of common prescriptions in the appendix includes the use for each along with rationales, providing a quick reference when considering a drug's implications for dental treatment.
• Expanded resources on CD include a search function and pronunciations for the glossary, plus crossword puzzles, word searches, and additional illustrations of common oral complications, making it easier to recognize terms, drug classes, and pathologic conditions.