Al-Johani K, Reddy S G, Al Mushayt A S, El-Housseiny A
Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah; Qaseem Private Colleges, Buraidah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Qaseem Private Colleges, Buraidah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Niger J Clin Pract. 2017 Jul;20(7):804-810. doi: 10.4103/1119-3077.196072.
Inappropriate use of antibiotics by clinicians leads to antibiotic resistance, and is a serious global health concern.
The aim of this study was to determine antibiotic prescription practices of dental practitioners and their adherence to professional guidelines while treating oral health problems among children.
All the dentists working in Jeddah were invited to participate and 126 dentists consented to be a part of this study. A two-part questionnaire was applied. First section explored the demographics and questions related to antibiotic use for certain dental clinical procedures, whereas the second section used five different clinical case scenarios to elicit the antibiotics prescription practices and adherence to professional guidelines by the dentists.
Amoxicillin (73.8%) was the most commonly preferred antibiotic for most of the orofacial infections among the dentists. The overall adherence to the professional guidelines ranged from 9.5 to 45%.
A lack of consistency in the antibiotic prescription pattern among dentists in Jeddah and overall low adherence to the professional guidelines was observed.
临床医生对抗生素的不当使用会导致抗生素耐药性，这是一个严重的全球健康问题。
本研究的目的是确定牙科医生在治疗儿童口腔健康问题时的抗生素处方习惯及其对专业指南的遵循情况。
邀请在吉达工作的所有牙医参与，126名牙医同意参与本研究。采用了一份分为两部分的问卷。第一部分探讨了人口统计学以及与某些牙科临床程序中抗生素使用相关的问题，而第二部分使用了五种不同的临床病例场景来引出牙医的抗生素处方习惯以及他们对专业指南的遵循情况。
对于大多数口腔颌面部感染，阿莫西林（73.8%）是牙医最常用的首选抗生素。对专业指南的总体遵循率在9.5%至45%之间。
观察到吉达的牙医在抗生素处方模式上缺乏一致性，并且总体上对专业指南的遵循率较低。
