Ibuprofen

· Ibuprofen is a pain reliever and an anti-inflammatory drug. · It is available for all age groups. · It is not constipating, and there are no adverse gastric side effects.

Many analgesic preparations can be bought without a prescription. Caution is nevertheless necessary. Several analgesics are very often combined in a single tablet or capsule. You may not be aware of the ingredients of your pain-relieving tablets or capsules. It is therefore most important that they should only be taken with the knowledge and approval of your doctor or dentist. This is particularly true if you are taking other medications as well.

Ex.12. Answer the following questions:

1. What is an analgesic? 2. What part do analgesics play in reducing dental pain?

3. What is the main cause of severe dental pain? 4. What is an anti-inflammatory drug? 5. Which are the anti-inflammatory drugs? 6. What are the most commonly used analgesics? 7. Is it safe to take analgesics without dental or medical advice?

Ex.13. Insert the missing prepositions (with, of, for) and translate:

Patients typically associate dental care ______ pain. Pain has both physiological and psychological components, and an experience _____ poorly managed pain related to dental treatment can lead patients to avoid or postpone treatment, as well as make them more difficult to treat and less likely to comply with prescribed regimens. Medications that reduce pain improve clinical outcomes. The development _____ new pain management strategies affords dental clinicians with additional treatment options _____ acute pain management. Preoperative administration of some analgesics, for example, has been shown to reduce the onset ____ postoperative pain. Another approach involves combining analgesics that target both peripheral and central pain pathways to deliver comparable analgesia at lower doses of the component drugs. Combining drugs ______ different time to onset or duration of action also can improve the range ____ analgesic effect. Combining analgesics with differing sites of action, modes of action, onset and duration, in other words, can greatly enhance their capacity to minimize pain, be tolerated better and reduce recovery time.

Ex.14. Insert the missing words given below:

The ______ surgeon is often required to diagnose and treat _____ arising from the teeth, jaws and associated ______. The ______ of most of this pain can often be easily recognized and treated by _____ measures. However, postoperative dental pain resulting from a dental _______ procedure often requires the dental surgeon to recommend or prescribe an _______. Such analgesics can be classified as either peripherally- or centrally-acting.

a) pain b) local c) surgical d) cause e) analgesic f) structures g) dental

Ex.15. Read and translate the following text and divide it into logical parts: