PHARMACOLOGY

Course Description

The challenge faced by all clinicians today is to provide safe and effective dental treatment to their patients. This program will present an overview of dental pharmacology so that dental practitioners will be aware of those agents commonly used in the practice of dentistry, including local anesthetics, analgesics, antibiotics, and other anti-infectives, whose actions, effects, or interactions with other drugs may impact the treatment of systemic disease. As referred to in the recent DEA requirements, special emphasis will be given to aspects of the safe pharmacological management of dental pain and screening, brief intervention, and referral for appropriate treatment of patients with or at risk of developing opioid and other substance use disorders.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this program, participants should be able to:

1. Discuss local anesthetic agents with respect to their mechanism of action, adverse effects, and contraindications
2. Describe the pharmacology of opioid and non-opioid analgesics.
3. Examine the pharmacology of antibacterial agents commonly used in dentistry and their clinical considerations.
4. Discuss aspects of the safe pharmacological management of dental pain and screening, brief intervention, and referral for appropriate treatment of patients with or at risk of developing opioid and other substance use disorders

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