Book excerpt: This book is written mainly for Undergraduate Dental Students. Its user-friendly format provides knowledge of pharmacology without extraneous details—as needed by BDS students. The book will also be useful for practicing Dentists and Pharmacy students. - Meets the requirement of the syllabus proposed by Dental Council of India (DCI) - Includes drugs with dose, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, drug interactions and therapeutic uses - Supplemented with the addition of some new topics like Pharmacovigilance and Drug Dosage Forms - Contains important medical emergencies in dental practice and oral side effects of drugs in tabular format - Large number of diagrams, flowcharts and tables will facilitate quick learning and greater retention of the concepts - Thoroughly updated edition that highlights the important aspects of pharmacology for students pursuing undergraduate courses in Dentistry