Medicines and Therapeutics in Oral Medicine

Question 1

What medicines are used in oral medicine

Answer 1

Antimicrobials
-Anti-viral
-Anti-fungal
-Antibiotics

Topical Steroids
-Inhaled steroids
-Steroid mouthwash

Benzdamine mouthwash

Carbamazepine

Question 2

What classifications of medicines are there

Answer 2

general sales

Pharmacy medicines

Prescription only medicines

Controlled drugs

Medical devices

Question 3

What is Aciclovir

Answer 3

Antiviral drug used to treat; primary herpetic gingivostomatitis,
recurrent herpetic lesions, shingles

Question 4

What are Miconazole, Fluconazole, Nystatin

Answer 4

Antifungals used to treat Acute pseudomembranous candidiasis, erythematous candidiasis

Question 5

What is meant by Licensed Medicines

Answer 5

A medicine that has been proven in evidence to the MHRA to have efficacy and safety at defined doses in a child and/or adult population when treating specified medical conditions

Question 5

Give an example of a unlicensed topical steroid and what they are used to treat

Answer 5

Betamethasone mouthwash

Beclomethasone Metered Dose Inhaler

used to treat apthous ulcers, lichen planus

Question 6

What is meant by unlicensed medicine

Answer 6

Medicines that have not had evidence of efficacy submitted for the condition under treatment

Question 7

What is meant by medical devices

Answer 7

any instrument, apparatus, implement, or other similar intended by the manufacturer to be used for one or more of the specific medical purpose(s) of:

-diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease,
-diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury,
-investigation, replacement, modification, or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process,
-supporting or sustaining life,
-disinfection of medical devices

Question 8

What dental treatment is classed as ‘medical devices’

Answer 8

dry mouth treatments

-Salivix pastilles
-Saliva orthana
-Biotene Oral Balance
-Artificial Saliva DPF
-Glandosane