Antibiotic prescribing in dental medicine-best practices for successful implementation

• Published in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Authors: Oana Sandulescu, Liliana Lucia Preotescu, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Gulsen Ozkaya Sahin, Mihai Sandulescu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI 2024; MDPI AG
• Subjects: Analysis; Anti-infective agents; antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Antimicrobial agents; antimicrobial use; Bacteria; Basic Medicine; Best practices; Dental therapeutics; Dentistry; Drug resistance; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Imipenem; Industrialized nations; Lavage; Low income groups; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Medicine; Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper; Methicillin; One health; Pandemics; Pathogens; Pharmaceutical policy; Practice; Prescription drugs; rational use; Review; Samhällsfarmaci och klinisk farmaci; Social and Clinical Pharmacy; Staphylococcus infections; Streptococcus infections; Tetracycline; Tetracyclines; United Kingdom; Sweden; Romania; Australia; Croatia; Africa; rational use; antimicrobial use; antibiotic resistance; dentistry; antibiotics

With rising rates of antimicrobial resistance throughout the world, it is time to revisit antibiotic prescribing policies and practices, and dentistry is an important area for focused inter- vention, as it accounts for up to 15% of all antimicrobial prescriptions. In this narrative review, we have a...