Polypharmacy and Dentistry: 2. Interactions with Analgesics and Antimicrobials

From Volume 29, Issue 8, October 2002 | Pages 382-388

Authors

J.G. Meechan

PhD, FDS

Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Dental School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Articles by J.G. Meechan

Abstract

In the first paper of this short series the principles involved in drug interactions and the influence of polypharmacy on dental local anaesthesia and sedation were discussed. This second paper will concentrate on interactions with analgesics and antimicrobials prescribed in dental practice.

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