Principles Of Pharmacology for Dental Students

Teaching pharmacology to the BDS students aims at providing a rational basis for choosing and using drugs skillfully in dental practice and developing a critical outlook towards various drugs as per the prescribed syllabus. The students should understand the basic principles of pharmacology with particular stress on certain groups of drugs used routinely in dental practice. Keeping all the requirements of a good textbook in mind this edition attempts to provide adequate balanced and up-to-date information on the subject to the dental students. All the chapters have now been revised and reorganized especially in view of the revised syllabus prescribed by the Dental Council of India (DCI). Points for dental students are given at the end of each chapter to cover the implications of drugs in dental practice as desired by the DCI. Treatment of common dental problems has also been included in the distinctive portion on dental pharmacology. The text is precise interesting and reader-friendly.