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Adverse drug reactions: Part 1 Xerostomia

BDJ Student volume 28, pages 30–32 (2021)Cite this article

By Nidhi Parmar and Gabrielle Thompson

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are noxious and unintended responses to therapeutic doses of a medicinal drug. 80% of ADRs are dose-dependent, reversible and predictable caused by excessive pharmacological action of a drug. The remaining 20% are unpredictable reaction to a drug's normal pharmacology.1

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