New medications and an increasing use of 'alternate' or 'complimentary' medications increase the difficulty in managing your patients, and increasing the risk of adverse effects.

Medication adverse effects include the impeding of the safe delivery of dental treatment and the adverse oral and dental manifestations and complications related to the use of medications. This one-day lecture program aims to identify those patients, the medications they are taking and those drugs that are dangerous to the provision of safe dental care for our patients.

Topics include

Pharmacology

• The Medical and Drug History
• Know your drugs - classification
• Basic Pharmacology Revisited

Classification of Oral and Dental Complications and Manifestations of Adverse Drug Reactions

• Hypersensitivity, anaphylaxis and allergy

Warfarin and DOACs

• (Direct-acting Oral Anti-Coagulants)

Chemotherapy

• The old and the new – the targeted therapies: the “Biologics”, MABs, NIBs, TKIs
• Safe dental care for the patient having chemotherapy

MRONJ (Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws)

• Diagnosis and Treatment
• Risk Analysis
• Safe dental care for the patient at-risk of MRONJ

Roasting (some) Select Sacred Cows