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    Personal Analgesic List Definition in Accordance with the Rational Use of Medicine for Dentistry
    (MARMARA UNIV, FAC PHARMACY, 2017-10-03) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, Ahmet; Kirmizi, N. Ipek; Gocmen, Gokhan
    Physicians should prepare their own personal medicine list for each indication before consulting with patients. This approach is essential for rational use of medicine (RUM). One of the most commonly prescribed medicine groups by dentists is analgesics. The purpose of this review is to indicate how to perform medicine selection based on RUM principles. It is explained with the integration of personal analgesic list (PAL) concept to dentistry. PAL establishment is based on 4 main criteria, which are efficacy, safety, suitability and cost, and the knowledge of clinical pharmacology of analgesics. These principles are followed to choose the best alternative through all medicines. Therefore, dentists might minimize their necessity of knowledge about various kinds of analgesics. It will be easier to learn limited number of medicines in the PAL. In this method, dentists will precisely wise up about a few numbers of medicines, select the most proper one through them and easily remember every details of information that should be given to their patients. Consequently, a dentist with PAL will be able to perform a successful analgesic treatment. This rational approach, initiated with analgesics, might be used by the help of transfer effect in other medicine/product groups, such as antibiotics.
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    Rational Pharmacotherapy Management Process in Dentistry
    (MARMARA UNIV, FAC PHARMACY, 2017-04-18) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, Ahmet; Gocmen, Gokhan
    Unnecessary or improper use of medications is a common worldwide problem. Inadequate approach of doctors to the rational use of medicine (RUM) principles and lack of its educational process are main reasons of this problem. RUM defined as patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual requirements, for an adequate period of time, and at the lowest cost to them and their community. Dentists prescribe serious amount of medication, which is mostly analgesics and antibiotics. Therefore, informing dentists and dissemination of RUM among them is an urgent issue. This article points out, how to manage overall treatment process based on RUM principles next by a patient on the dental practice. In additionally, that is carried out by a simulation case requiring an analgesic drug treatment. Therefore, suitability of the drug with the patient, which is going to be prescribed after dental procedure with the correct diagnosis, will be assessed. Illness, treatment aim, participants and adaptation with the life style are explained to the patients. Dentist makes instructions and recommendations clearly about the pharmacotherapy process and informs the patient. Therefore, they integrate the patient to the overall treatment process and manage it.