Course Description
The dental pharmacology course, part of the Implant League platform, is concerned with the general principles related to pharmacology in dental practice, including proper use and selection of antimicrobials, analgesics, and mouthwashes. The course also focuses on blood thinners and their significance in dental practice. Our online courses emphasize the pharmacological actions and therapeutic applications of drugs used or implicated in dentistry.
Topics include introduction to microbiology, antibiotic prescription, antiviral medications, antifungal use in dental clinics, toothpastes and mouthwashes and their types and indications. A special focus is given to analgesics and NSAIDs. At the end of the course, there’s a whole lecture about prescription writing rules and common prescriptions used to treat common dental conditions.
Enroll now and take the next step in advancing your dental career with our basics in pharmacology for dental students course.
Course Aims
The course aims to provide students with a solid grounding in the concepts and scientific decisions of drug uses in dentistry. Also, it aims to provide students with comprehensive information on uses of the major classes of clinically important drugs currently used in medical practice such as analgesics, antimicrobials and effects of blood thinners and its management.
Course Outcomes
- Differentiate types of antibiotics in the market and decide which one to use for each clinical scenario
- Treat different types of fungal and viral infections with appropriate drug.
- Know the ingredients of toothpastes and prescribe suitable toothpaste depending on patient’s needs.
- Prescribe different types of mouthwashes according to patient’s condition.
- Select the most suitable antimicrobial mouthwash to treat different periodontal conditions.
- Understand the actions and appropriate therapeutic use of analgesics and NSAIDs.
- Understand the rational of using anti-infective, antifungal and antiviral agents in dentistry.
- Identify the major adverse reactions and drug interactions of the most commonly used medications in Dentistry.
- Interpret a prescription and basic abbreviations used in writing a prescription
- Manage patients on blood thinners
Target Group
- Dentists
- Pre-graduate dental students
Course Outline
- Introduction and course objectives
- Basics of bacterial microbiology
- Overview of antibiotics
- Overview if antiviral drugs
- Overview of antifungal drugs
- Rules for antimicrobial prescription in dental clinic
- Opioid analgesics
- Inflammatory pathway and mechanism of action of NSAIDs
- Analgesics and antipyretics
- Rules for prescription writing
- Common prescriptions for the most common clinical scenarios.
Course Format
- 4.2 hours of video lectures
- Downloadable printout material [PDF]
- 15 lectures
Course Features
- Lectures16
- Quizzes0
- Duration15 lectures
- Skill levelAll levels
- LanguageEnglish
- Students3
- AssessmentsYes
Curriculum
- 16 Sections
- 16 Lessons
- 365 Days
- Materials1
- Introduction course objectives1
- Microbiology of pathogens1
- Mechanism of action of antimicrobials1
- Penecillin and cephalosporin1
- Antibiotics that act on protein synthesis1
- Metronidazole1
- Rules for antibiotic prescription1
- Antiviral medications1
- Antifungal medications1
- Opioid analgesics1
- Non-steroidal antiinflamatory drugs1
- Mouthwashes1
- Toothpaste1
- Management of blood thinners and anticoagulants1
- Common prescriptions in dental office1
Target audiences
- Dentists
- Pre-graduate Dental Students
