Physiology for BDS: Home

The major objective is not to make dental students physiologist but certainly to encourage them to think "physiologically" when, in future practice, patients will be subjected to a wide variety of drugs, such as local anesthetics and antibiotics that affect many organs. They need to know not only the functioning of these organs in health and how the drug they administer affects healthy organs, but also background in normal physiology is essential to understand how pathological conditions may reduce or amplify the effects of these drugs. We hope that, in this course, students will acquire sufficient grounding in normal physiology to apply it to understanding pathophysiology and to understanding patients more completely.