Mosby's Dental Drug Reference

by Gage & Pickett

• ISBN13: 9780323032049
• ISBN10: 0323032044
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Mosby

Summary

Accurate, easy-to-use, and up-to-date - this user-friendly guide is the ideal drug reference for the dental office. Detailed coverage of over 2,000 commonly used drug products, including the top 200 prescription drugs in the U.S., assists in the rapid identification of drugs that dental patients may be taking. Drugs are presented alphabetically by generic name in a succinctly ordered and standardized format with pertinent drug information. An easy-to-use cross index is the key to using this book for both brand and generic name identification. An additional index, based on a therapeutic and pharmacologic classification, can also be used to quickly locate drug monographs. A companion CD-ROM contains 115 customizable patient education sheets that provide valuable facts about drugs patients may be taking. The sheets can be printed in English or Spanish.

Table of Contents

Therapeutic/Pharmacologic Index	p. 1
Individual Drugs	p. 19
Appendixes	p. 825
Abbreviations	p. 827
Drugs causing dry mouth	p. 834
Controlled substances chart	p. 838
FDA pregnancy categories	p. 839
Drugs that affect taste	p. 840
Combination products	p. 844
Dose calculations by weight	p. 856
Herbal and nonherbal remedies	p. 858
Drugs affecting the cytochrome P-450 isoenzymes	p. 898
Prescription examples	p. 907
Selected references	p. 916
Generic and Trade Name Index	p. 919
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