BDS in General and Dental Pharmacology and Therapeutics

BDS in General and Dental Pharmacology and Therapeutics

The broad goal of teaching under graduate students in pharmacology is to inculcate rational and scientific basis of therapeutics keeping in view of dental curriculum and Profession.

Course content:

-General pharmacology sources and nature of drugs dosage forms; prescription writing; pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism and
excretion of drugs), mode of action of drugs, combined effect of drugs, receptor mechanism of drug action, factors modifying drug response, adverse drug reactions; drug interactions, Implications of General Principles in clinical dentistry.

-CNS drugs; General anaesthetics, Hypnotics, analgescis psychotropic drugs, antiepileptics, muscle relaxants, local anaesthetics, implications of these drugs in clinical dentistry.

-Autonomie drugs ; sympathomimetics, antiadrenergic drugs parasympothomimetics and parasympatholytics, Implications of Autonomie drugs in clinical dentistry.