Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Endodontic Infections: A Survey of Dentists in Serbia.

ABSTRACT: The study goal was to provide an overview of antibiotic prescribing practices of Serbian dentists when treating endodontic infections and to disseminate the current ESE (European Society of Endodontology) recommendations to the study participants. A link to an online questionnaire was sent to 628 Serbian dentists whose email addresses were publicly available on the Internet, 158 of whom responded to the survey, resulting in a 25.16% response rate. The significance of possible associations was assessed via the Chi-squared test and Cramer's V measure of association, with p < 0.05 considered as statistically significant. According to the study findings, 55.7% of respondents prescribed a 5-day antibiotic course. Moreover, Amoxicillin 500 mg was the first-choice antibiotic for 55.1% of the resp

SUBMITTER: Drobac M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7827796 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature