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- Title
Do specialists give consistent advice to primary care colleagues on antibiotic use in patients receiving bisphosphonates?
- Authors
Mulcahy, Mike
- Abstract
Since 2003, the dental profession has been challenged by the introduction of drugs, such as bisphosphonates, designed to protect bone mass in the face of pathological and physiological disease changes, including osteoporosis, Paget’s disease and metastatic malignancies. These conditions change the normal dynamic restructuring of bones by osteoblasts and osteoclasts, resulting in less bone resorption by osteoclasts.1 However, they are also associated with osteonecrosis and current guidelines are inconsistent as to whether antibiotics should be used prophylactically. We present the results of a survey of the advice oral surgeons would give to PDCPs treating patients receiving bisphosphonates, and discuss the implications for patient care.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS testing; OSTEOPOROSIS
- Publication
Faculty Dental Journal, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
2042-6852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1308/rcsfdj.2017.72