How pregnancy, age, kidney disease and liver disease change what — and how much — you can safely prescribe from the dental chair.
BDS · NEET-MDS · State-PSC Dental · TOPIC 21 Drug use in special populations How pregnancy, age, kidney disease and liver disease change what — and how much — you can safely prescribe from the dental chair. Most patients treated with dental drugs are healthy adults with normal organ function. When they are not — a pregnant woman, a nursing mother, a 4-year-old, an 82-year-old on eight medicines, a diabetic with early renal disease, an alcoholic with cirrhosis — the same amoxicillin, ibuprofen, or lignocaine that would be trivially safe becomes a live prescribing decision. This note cove…
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