Latin Language for Students of Dental Faculties = Lingua Latina ad Usum Stomatologiae Studentium: textbook (III—IV a. l.) / O.M. Bieliaieva, V.H. Synytsia, L.Yu. Smolska et al.; edited by O.M. Bieliaieva

The textbook contains programme material on education discipline “The Latin language and Medical Terminology” for the students of higher education establishments — medical universities, institutes and academies that provides training of master degree 22 “Health Care” in specialty 221 “Dentistry”. The textbook is designed according to the structural-terminological principle and consists of 3 sections in proper correlation with the main terminological subsystems of medical terminology — anatomical and histological, clinical, pharmaceutical. The grammar material of the first section is based on the terms of morphology, physiology and dental pathology including maxillofacial area as well as anatomical structure of the head and neck. The second section of the textbook represents the lexical material embracing all essential dentistry branches: therapeutic dentistry, surgical and maxillofacial dentistry, orthopedics and orthodontics, pediatric dentistry with dental diseases prevention. The third section is aimed at encouraging students to obtain theoretical knowledge on general rules of prescription writing fundamentals: notion of prescription, the rules of prescribing medicines, proper presentation of the Latin part of prescription, classification of dosage forms, the most important abbreviations commonly used in prescription and gaining skills in writing prescriptions on this basis, prescribing remedies that are aimed to treat and prevent the main dental diseases (dental problems with hard tooth tissues, pulp, periodontium, tongue, gums, mucous membrane of the oral cavity), surgical infection in dentistry, as well as emergency in dental practice.