Should you pre-med with antibiotics before dental implant surgery? Whether to use prophylactic antibiotics before dental implant or dental implants are placed is controversial and you will find many different opinions. Overall the research shows it improves success rates of dental implants. What does the research say about antibiotic use for dental implant placement? Meta-analysis […]
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Antibiotic prophylaxis dentistry Antibiotic prophylaxis for dentistry was once very common but experts no longer recommend them nearly as often. In a previous post I list a lot of the studies that show why I feel the majority of the pre-medicating done is simply done as a legality issue to cover the unknown liability that […]
Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Bacteremia in Dentistry 2016 AAOS now agrees with ADA to not pre-med except rare medical issues. They even made a pretty easy to use online questionnaire. 2015 ADA update Now ADA says no to pre-med JADA 2015 Update AAOS I don’t think agrees 2015 Personally I agree with ADA on this as […]