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Antibiotics Use in Endodontics

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Antibiotics are prescribed by dentists routinely for the treatment as well as prevention of infection. Indications for the use of systemic antibiotics in endodontics are limited, since most intra-canal poly-microbial endodontic infections are best managed by nonsurgical endodontic treatments. Overprescribing should be avoided in light of increasing antibiotic resistance and risk of drug hypersensitivity in those cases where antibiotics are not warranted.

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Patel, B. (2015). Antibiotics Use in Endodontics. In: Endodontic Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15591-3_10

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