The feasibility of providing postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) after sexual or injection drug use exposures to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was evaluated. PEP was provided within 72 h to individuals with exposures from partners known to have or to be at risk for HIV infection. PEP consisted of 4 weeks of antiretroviral medications and individually tailored risk-reduction and medication-adher...

This is a case report of septic arthritis of the knee due to Prevotella loescheii, in a patient with advanced arthrosis. Two weeks beforehand he had undergone a dental root extraction without antibiotic prophylaxis. His knee had become inflamed 48 hours after extraction and he was started on ibuprofen and steroid treatment (prescribed by his primary health care doctor). With a provisional diagn...

Modern etiopathogenic and diagnostic procedures of oral diseases are founded on molecular biology, genetic engineering, autoimmunity, pathohistological, cytological and immunofluorescence methods. The autoimmune processes may include the humoral and cellular immune responses and all organ systems may be involved. The systematic and orofacial manifestations of the scleroderma with medical and pa...

Antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis (IE) prior to certain procedures is a particularly controversial issue for the dental community. On the basis of the information provided in an editorial recently published in the Revista Española de Cardiologı́a and the enormous perplexity generated by the proposal of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (United Kingdom) that antibiotic...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the effect of dental prophylaxis on the surface gloss and roughness of different indirect restorative materials for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM): two types of CAD/CAM composite resin blocks (Shofu Block HC and Estelite Block) and two types of CAD/CAM ceramic blocks (IPS Empress CAD and Celtra DUO). MATERIAL AND METHODS Af...

Despite advances in oral health care, patients and dental professionals remain uncertain about individually trained oral hygiene, in particular regarding the management of interdental cleaning. Prof. Denis Bourgeois, Dean of the University of Lyon’s dental faculty in France has presented scientific evidence that interdental brushes, in particular CURAPROX CPS interdental brushes, are efficient ...

BACKGROUND Fear and anxiety often inhibit patients from seeking dental care. Audiovisual, or A/V, distraction techniques have been shown to reduce patient anxiety and pain during dental procedures. The authors investigated the effects of a virtual image A/V eyeglass system on patients' anxiety and pain. METHODS Twenty-seven routine dental prophylaxis patients participated and completed the De...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of valvular pathosis in a population of patients with SLE, to assess the candidacy of such patients for antibiotic prophylaxis before dental treatment. The hospital records of 112 patients with SLE were reviewed and screened for endocarditis, heart murmurs, and other valvular pathosis. Two of the 112 patients had confirmed cases of bacte...

T here is now evidence that most cases of infective endocarditis are not attributable to an invasive procedure, and bacteremia resulting from daily activities is much more likely to cause infective endocarditis than bacteremia associated with a dental procedure. Thus, the usefulness of antibiotic prophylaxis in this setting has been questioned. In the recently revised American Heart Association...

The aim of this randomized, single blinded clinical trial was to evaluate the effect of a pre-procedural mouthwash containing cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), zinc lactate (Zn) and sodium fluoride (F) in the reduction of viable bacteria in oral aerosol after a dental prophylaxis with ultrasonic scaler. Sixty systemically healthy volunteers receiving dental prophylaxis were randomly assigned to o...