ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2023
Changes in antibiotic prescribing by dentists in the United States, 2012-2019.
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- Factors associated with antibiotic use patterns in Thailand after COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The effect of antibiotic premedication on postoperative complications following dental extractions.Journal of public health dentistry · 2024Article
- Is an Inquisition Warranted in Light of the Widespread Usage of Antibiotics in Dentistry?Cureus · 2024Article
- Antibiotic Prescribing Trends in Dentistry during Ten Years' Period-Croatian National Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Barriers and facilitators to guideline concordant dental antibiotic prescribing in the United States: A qualitative study of the National Dental PBRN.Journal of public health dentistry · 2024Article
- Guideline concordance and antibiotic-associated adverse events between Veterans administration and non-Veterans administration dental settings: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- The Baker Lab at the OHSU School of Dentistry: leveraging bioinformatics and molecular biology to discover how the bacteria that live in our mouth impact human health and disease.OHSU School of Dentistry anthology · 2023Article
- Prevalence of metronidazole resistance genes inJournal of Indian Society of PeriodontologyReview
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Abstract
objectivesDentists prescribe 10% of all outpatient antibiotics in the United States and are the top specialty prescriber. Data on current antibiotic prescribing trends are scarce. Therefore, we evaluated trends in antibiotic prescribing rates by dentists, and we further assessed whether these trends differed by agent, specialty, and by patient characteristics.
designRetrospective study of dental antibiotic prescribing included data from the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Data set from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2019.
methodsThe change in the dentist prescribing rate and mean days' supply were evaluated using linear regression models.
resultsDentists wrote >216 million antibiotic prescriptions between 2012 and 2019. The annual dental antibiotic prescribing rate remained steady over time (
conclusionsFrom 2012 to 2019, dental prescribing rates for antibiotics remained unchanged, despite decreases in antibiotic prescribing nationally and changes in guidelines during the study period. However, mean days' supply decreased over time. Dental specialties, such as oral and maxillofacial surgeons, had the highest prescribing rate with increases over time. Antibiotic stewardship efforts to improve unnecessary prescribing by dentists and targeting dental specialists may decrease overall antibiotic prescribing rates by dentists.
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