Therapeutics
Terapêutica Médico Dentária
Course code:9548304
José João Baltazar Mendes
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
The goals and objectives are updating knowledge previously covered by General Pharmacology and Microbiology, developing skills to deal with most of the therapeutic decisions commonly made by practicing physicians.
Develop skills that allow to:
- Evaluate medical prescriptions.
- Follow up the use of drugs.
- Provide correct information on drugs to patients in order to promote its correct use.
- Distinguish drug-related events from spontaneous alterations in disease and major drug-drug interactions.
In practical classes students should deepen the notions acquired in the theoretical component and develop skills that allow to:
- Integrate knowledge, deal with complex issues and solve problems in new clinical case studies.
- Develop research, interpretation and written and oral communication of scientific content and team work.
Syllabus:
- Medical history in dentistry.
- Prescription norms.
- Pharmacological reactions.
- Local anesthetics.
- Sedation in the dental setting.
- Pain control and prevention.
- Antibiotics in dentistry.
- Pharmacological protocols.
- Dental therapy in specific groups of patients.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Ganda K (2017) Dentist's Guide to Medical Conditions, Medications & Complications. 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Rosen E, Nemcovsky CE, Tsesis I (2017) Evidence-Based Decision Making in Dentistry, Multidisciplinary Management of the Natural Dentition. 1st ed., Springer International Publishing.
- Dowd FJ, Johnson B, Mariotti A (2017) Pharmacology and Therapeuthics for Dentistry. 7th ed., Elsevier.
- Moharamzadeh K (2018) Diseases and Conditions in Dentistry. 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Wilson N, Dunne S (2018) Manual of Clinical Procedures in Dentistry. 1st ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.