Amoxicillin to Prevent Bacteria and Inflammatory Biomarkers After Intensive Periodontal Therapy
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2018-07-31
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Summary
There are not published studies evaluating the incidence, nature, magnitude and/or duration
of bacteremia after periodontal treatment. The pre-surgical antibiotics have been studied
particullary over Gram positive bacterial but not over gram negative bacterial and their
secondary effects over the systemic pro-inflamation. Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of
intensive periodontal therapy and pre-medication with oral amoxicilline on inflammatory
bio-markers and the incidence, duration and magnitude of bacteremia in patients with chronic
periodontitis.