We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Many orthopedic surgeons and dentists use antibiotic ...

Greater than 80% of antibiotics prescribed for infection prophylaxis prior to dental visits were found to be unnecessary, according to a recent retrospective cohort study. The aim of the study was to ...

Preventive antibiotics before dental work may not lower the risk of periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs) in patients who underwent total hip or knee replacements, according to a study recently ...

Dallas, TX - Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for dental procedures is unlikely to prevent many cases of infective endocarditis and should be restricted to patients who would be at highest risk from ...

Routine antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) for dental patients who may be at risk of infection from invasive dental procedures costs the U.S. healthcare system more than $150 million annually, according to a ...

Prophylactic antibiotics, when given to high-risk patients before they have invasive dental procedures, are linked to a lower likelihood of infective endocarditis (IE) in the month thereafter, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2007 decision to no longer advise antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent viridans group streptococcal infective ...

Nearly half a million total joint replacements are performed in the United States each year. [1] As a result, a number of patients have benefited from these procedures. While the risk of prosthetic ...

Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective ...

In 2005/6 a working party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), after considering the evidence for the use of antimicrobial prophylaxis for dental patients at risk of infective ...