ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2009
Are dental procedures an important risk factor for infective endocarditis? A case-crossover study.
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- Risk of Infective Endocarditis Following Invasive Dental Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Public health reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Antibiotic prophylaxis before dental procedures to prevent infective endocarditis: a systematic review.Infection · 2023Pooled it
- Mapping Review of the Correlations Between Periodontitis, Dental Caries, and Endocarditis.Dentistry journal · 2025Review
- Oral streptococcal infective endocarditis among individuals at high risk following dental treatment: a nested case-crossover and case-control study.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Infective endocarditis following invasive dental procedures: IDEA case-crossover study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2022Observational
- Analysis of Prosthetic Joint Infections Following Invasive Dental Procedures in England.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Dental procedures, antibiotic prophylaxis, and endocarditis among people with prosthetic heart valves: nationwide population based cohort and a case crossover study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2017Article
- Dental Procedures and the Risk of Infective Endocarditis.Medicine · 2015Observational
- The bacteremia of dental origin and its implications in the appearance of bacterial endocarditis.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2014Review
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Abstract
Although infective endocarditis (IE) is often reported to develop following dental treatment, no published data have accurately defined the risk of IE from dental procedures. The purpose of this study was to examine whether dental procedures constitute significant risk factors for endocarditis. The study population was composed of 170 hospitalized patients with infective endocarditis. The frequency of dental procedures during the 3-month period immediately before admission was compared with the frequency of such procedures during earlier 3-month control periods (when no endocarditis developed), using the case-crossover design. Thirty-four out of 98 patients with available information (35%) had had 81 dental procedures during the 2 years before hospitalization, 12 (12%) of whom had had 14 procedures during the 3 months before admission. The number and types of dental procedures performed during this 3-month period were not statistically different from those carried out during any earlier 3-month period, which served as a control period. Dental procedures do not significantly increase the risk of IE.
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