Abstract
To prevent drug-induced medical malpractice in dental practice, it is important to confirm the safety of the planned dental treatment sufficiently, and further to select an appropriate drug for the targeted treatment adequately. We thus considered that a reference material, if available, may be useful for achieving more efficient and adequate selection of an appropriate drug when the confirmation of safety must be performed during a rather busy dental practice or when an alternative drug must be selected if the intended drug could not be used due to some reason. Therefore, several important points we should bear in mind when a local anesthetic, antimicrobial agent or analgesic is selected were extracted from the literature concerned. In addition, these drugs were then classified for arrangement to make a summarized list for reference.
