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Teaching pharmacology to the BDS students aims at providing a rational basis for choosing and using drugs skillfully in dental practice and developing a critical outlook towards various drugs as per the prescribed syllabus. The students should understand the basic principles of pharmacology with particular stress on certain groups of drugs used routinely in dental practice. Keeping all the requirements of a good textbook in mind this edition attempts to provide adequate balanced and up-to-date information on the subject to the dental students. All the chapters have now been revised and reorganized especially in view of the revised syllabus prescribed by the Dental Council of India (DCI). Points for dental students are given at the end of each chapter to cover the implications of drugs in dental practice as desired by the DCI. Treatment of common dental problems has also been included in the distinctive portion on dental pharmacology. The text is precise interesting and reader-friendly. About the Author Dr. Khanna is currently Professor and Head Department of Pharmacology Jaipur Dental College Jaipur. He has taught in various medical colleges of Rajasthan for 33 years out of which he has been professor and head of the department of pharmacology for 20 years. After retirement he has served as Director Maharishi Arvind College of harmacy Jaipur; Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology MGNIMS Jaipur; and Visiting Professor of Pharmacology Kathmandu Medical College Kathmandu. He has been elected as a Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences and Fellow of International Medical Science Academy. He has contributed 200 research and review articles in reputed national and international journals and presented papers and chaired sessions in various national and international conferences. He has written a book entitled Principles of Dental Pharmacology and contributed chapters on several topics of pharmacology in various textbooks of pharmacology and other medicine.