Abstract
Although many reports have described the information sources used by drug information pharmacists, little has been written about dental drug information services and their information sources. The USP-DI Drug Information for the Health Care Professional includes Dental Precaution Listing since 1986. We surveyed the content and usefulness of this appendix and compared it with other information sources. Dental Precaution Listing contained approximately 530 drugs in 1990 th edition. We consider most of the those precautions as noteworthy, but USP-DI categolized drugs that might alter taste sensation and cause gingival hyperplasia, differently from the other information sources.
The dental information service is not a well-developed specialty yet, and practitioners rely heavily on the few relevant resource books available. We consider that the listing in USP-DI is one of those sources.
