ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Antibiotics Prescription by Spanish General Practitioners in Primary Dental Care.
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- Allergic Reactions in Dental Practice: Classification of Medicines, Mechanisms of Action, and Clinical Manifestations.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Over-Prescription of Antibiotics for Pulpitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional Surveys.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Knowledge of Antibiotic Management in Surgery, Periodontics and Endodontics Among Patients, Students and Dentistry Professors: A Cross-Sectional Study at the University of Barcelona (Spain).Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Antibiotic Prescribing Habits in Endodontics among Dentists in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina-A Questionnaire-Based Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Antibiotic Prescribing Trends in Dentistry during Ten Years' Period-Croatian National Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Antibiotics Prescribing Pattern and Quality of Prescribing in Croatian Dental Practices-5-Year National Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Patients' Opinions on Antibiotics in the Treatment of Dental Infections: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Antibiotic Over-Prescription by Dentists in the Treatment of Apical Periodontitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Systemic Antibiotic Use in Acute Irreversible Pulpitis: Evaluating Clinical Practices and Molecular Insights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- How decisions are made: Antibiotic stewardship in dentistry.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyze the antibiotics prescription habits, both prophylactically and therapeutically, of Spanish general dental practitioners in the management of endodontic infections in primary care. Two hundred Spanish general dental practitioners were asked to respond to a survey on indications for antibiotics prescription in the treatment of endodontic infections, being 190 general dentists (95%) included in the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the chi-square test. The average duration of antibiotics therapy was 6.5 ± 1.0 days. In patients without medical allergies, most of them (97%) selected amoxicillin as the antibiotic of the first choice, alone (51.1%) or associated with clavulanic acid (45.8%); in patients with penicillin allergies, the drug of choice was clindamycin 300 mg (70%). For cases of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis, 44% of the respondents prescribed antibiotics, in the scenario of prophylactic antibiotic prescription, up to 27% of the general dentists prescribe according to non-current guidelines (1 g 1 h before or 1 g 1 h before and 1 g 1 h after) in non-indicated cases (16% in patients taking oral bisphosphonates). It is necessary to improve the antibiotic prescription habits of Spanish general dentists in endodontics.
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