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2000, Number 4

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Rev ADM 2000; 57 (4)

What antibiotics dentist prescribe?

Gómez CJF

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 143-146
PDF size: 205.14 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Odontogenic infections are commons in dentistry, treatment consist in removal of the source of the infection and surgical drainage, but antibiotics may be indicated. To determine which one antibiotic prescribing dentists, a questionnaire was circulated to 303 dentist in 3 cities of Mexico. When they were asked about the 3 antibiotics prescribed, ampicillin (23%) was the most frequently recorded, erythromycin (11%) was the second, followed by penicillin V with 10%. There was a wide variation in the duration of the antibiotic therapy: 7 days treatment (50.87%) was the most frequently schedule, followed by less than 7 days (35.19%), and more than 7 days 13.93%. Current evidence indicates that anaerobes play a major role in odontogenic infections, and ampicillin has low activity against anaerobes. The results of the questionnaire suggests a lack of current knowledge about microbiological etiology.


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