DENA 1070 Oral Pathology and Therapeutics (2-0-2)
This course focuses on the diseases affecting the oral cavity and pharmacology as it relates to dentistry. Topics include identification and disease processes, signs and symptoms of oral diseases and systemic diseases with oral manifestations, developmental abnormalities of oral tissues, basic principles of pharmacology, drugs prescribed by the dental profession, drugs that may contraindicate treatment, and applied pharmacology (regulations, dosage, and applications).