Infection Blog Posts

• Dental implant failures reduced with prophylactic antibiotic suggests review

  09 Sep 2014

  • Derek Richards

  
• Study suggests an increasing number of Americans are being hospitalised with periapical abscesses

  26 Aug 2013

  • Derek Richards

  
• Little good quality evidence on whether to leave or remove impacted third molars involved in fractures of the angle of the mandible

  21 May 2013

  • Derek Richards

  
• Moderate evidence that prophylactic antibiotics reduce the risk of infection, dry socket and pain following third molar extraction but benefit not enough to recommend routine use

  15 Nov 2012

  • Derek Richards

  
• Plating fractures of the angle of the mandible via a transbuccal approach may result in lower infection rates

  22 Jun 2012

  • Derek Richards

  
• No increase in infective carditis after reducing routine antibiotic prophylaxis

  26 Sep 2011

  • Douglas Badenoch