Pharmacology, oral medicine, anesthesiology, and dental emergencies introduces principles of basic pharmacology as they pertain to the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene. It emphasizes actions and reactions of medications commonly used in the dental office or taken by dental patients. Topics in- clude terminology, pharmaceutical references, prescriptions and abbreviations, pharmacokinetics, drugs used in dentistry and their pharmacokinetics, drugs that may alter dental treat- ment and their pharmacokinetics, drugs used in dental emer- gencies, drug abuse, and nitrous oxide monitoring (as mandated in the Florida State Administrative Code Chapter 64B 14).