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Pharmacologic Management of Patients with Neurologic Disorders

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Neurologic and psychiatric disorders encompass a diverse range of disabling conditions. Collectively these diseases are increasingly recognized as disorders of the brain’s neural connections. Brain disorders are currently estimated to affect as many as 1.5 billion people worldwide—a number that is expected to grow as life expectancy increases (Gooch et al., Ann Neurol 81:479–484, 2017). Treatment of these chronic conditions involves long-term use of multiple pharmacologic agents, raising the concern of side effects and possible drug interactions with medications used during the delivery of dental care. There is much overlap between the types of medications used to treat both neurologic and psychiatric diseases. Appropriate preoperative assessment of dental patients should always include obtaining a thorough medical history that includes a current complete list of medications. It is incumbent on the oral healthcare practitioner that an analysis of possible drug interactions be done prior to the administration or prescription of any drugs used during the provision of dental care. This chapter provides an update of the current drug therapies used for patients with psychiatric diagnoses as well as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and seizure disorders and discusses potential drug interactions of clinical importance to the oral healthcare provider.

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Robbins, M.R. (2019). Pharmacologic Management of Patients with Neurologic Disorders. In: Jeske, A. (eds) Contemporary Dental Pharmacology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99852-7_7

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