Terry denies racially abusing Ferdinand, and should a magistrates trial take place during the season, his manager Villas-Boas will consider allowing Terry to take time off.
He said: "Eventually, if it is important for the justice, we will do it."
But Villas-Boas insisted he would continue to play his captain as long as he continues to display the kind of form he showed yesterday, with the defender not putting a foot wrong in Chelsea's 1-0 win.
"You have seen with the off-field events, we haven't stopped using John, and his level of performance has not been affected," he said.
"If that continues to be the case, we will continue to do it."
QPR fans were merciless in their abuse of Terry yesterday but he wisely chose not to react.
Villas-Boas said: "He is a player that has been through various situations, situations of stress and great, difficult atmospheres.
"Bearing in mind the events that have happened in the past, he showed that this was just another game for him and he was just interested in football. He had an extremely good performance."
It also transpired that the pre-match handshakes between the players was cancelled after some of QPR's players revealed they were prepared to snub Terry en masse.
With the start of the defender's trial weeks or even months away, that raised the prospect of the same happening again when the sides meet in the league at the end of April.
The Premier League today confirmed both clubs would need to seek their permission to cancel the handshake.
Yesterday also saw Chelsea keep a clean sheet for a third game in succession, something they would have taken for granted in years gone by but had not previously managed under Villas-Boas.
The Portuguese rejected suggestions it had taken longer than he had predicted for his players to absorb his ideas, insisting they had done so at the start of the season, jokingly crediting predecessor Carlo Ancelotti for that.
"So you would say that ideas were either quickly assimilated or the last manager still left his ideas," said the man who left Porto for Stamford Bridge last summer.
"I got it last year the same - we started winning so much and it was not me, it was the ideas of the old manager, the same."
Villas-Boas denied Chelsea had gone "back to basics" in 2012.
He added: "We got more solid, more confident on what we were doing.
"At the moment, we are conceding less but we continue to attack a lot.
"What has been our problem is finding that efficiency in front of goal to score more often to give us more comfortable leads."
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