Ağrı Kesici Olarak Topikal İlaçlar

Abstract

Topical therapy helps patients with oral and perioral pain problems such as ulcers, burning mouth syndrome, temporomandibular disorders, neuromas, neuropathies and neuralgias. Topical drugs used in the field of dentistry are topical anaesthetics, topical analgesics, topical antibiotics and topical corticosteroids. It provides symptomatic/curative effect. Topical drugs are easy to apply, avoids hepatic first pass metabolism and more sites specific. But it can only be used for medications that require low plasma concentrations to achieve a therapeutic effect. Key words: Topical therapy, topical analgesics, topical antibiotics, topical anesthetics, topical corticosteroids, drugs. ÖZET