Guest guest Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 Tony, if I decide to try a porcelain crown on that tooth, I want to premedicate just to be safe, because he will be drilling a little bit below the gumline an idea I don't like. At this point I put off doing anything as I have a bit of a flu the last 5 days. So its scheduled for 2 weeks hence. I may have him work on another tooth instead which isn't in as dire trouble though I don't think he'll like that idea. In any case, people premedicate with amoxicillin, do you think that's sufficient. 4 (2000 mg) before and 2 (1000 mg) after. Or what would you think would be sufficient simply to lessen any bacteremia during the procedure? TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 Jill My last appointment with my doctor I grilled him on exactly this topic. I alway's did well with amoxacillin yet I could never get completely over the infection wheras with penicillin I think you've got a better drug- basically it's capable of distributing thru the tissue the extra mm .-He also mentions that his preffered drug for this same reason is penicllin he hates giving amoxacillin and only does so when he gets the 'patient knows best'patient and wants the amoxacillin over the penicillin.I realise your doing the medically approved thing because this approach is in a lot of the literature. I went off amoxacillin because it doesn't really cut it in hospitals they don't do IV amoxacillin nor do they do IV augmentin- which is available- so it mustn't have the desired outcome to be an infection eradicating drug possably having many relapses early in the piece so they opted to only go the penicillin derivatives route in hospital systems.. -- In infections , " jill1313 " <jenbooks13@h...> wrote: > Tony, if I decide to try a porcelain crown on that tooth, I want to > premedicate just to be safe, because he will be drilling a little bit > below the gumline an idea I don't like. At this point I put off doing > anything as I have a bit of a flu the last 5 days. So its scheduled > for 2 weeks hence. I may have him work on another tooth instead which > isn't in as dire trouble though I don't think he'll like that idea. In > any case, people premedicate with amoxicillin, do you think that's > sufficient. 4 (2000 mg) before and 2 (1000 mg) after. Or what would > you think would be sufficient simply to lessen any bacteremia during > the procedure? > > TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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