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There is, of course, overlap of methods in most clinical procedures. Dentistry, as a medical specialty, is following this pattern (as usual, a few steps back). Dentistry has always been a surgery-oriented field: find something when the damage is big enough to trip over; chop it off; make some sort of replacement to restore some function. Along with general medicine, dentistry has participated in the ruination of the single most powerful biochemical weapon ever developed. The true inception of widespread and effective antibiotic use was circa. 1945, when penicillin became generally available to the (non-military) public. Infectious diseases that had been a scourge for thousands of years were nearly effortlessly defeated. The population mortality jumped by well over a decade, virtually overnight. But, in a mere 4 decades, through ill-advised use and abuse, resistant organisms have been bred, such that if you have the correct (by the book) antibiotic for a given germ, it will not only fail nearly 20% of the time, but will likely make things worse. The present In dentistry, a few of us have been using local antimicrobial (NOT antibiotic) tools to decontaminate the oral environments. Only if necessary, as a final step, might we use systemic antibiotics, and then, only after laboratory testing for specific active organisms and their antibiotic susceptibility. (The level of ineffectiveness of most of the first line antibiotics, especially doxycycline, is appalling.) |
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