Aim: To evaluate the success and failure in bone augmentation with dental implant cases when antibiotics were used with different timing in long follow-up periods.
Material and Method: 120 patients were randomly put into three groups: (1) no antibiotic treatment (NOAB); (2) preoperative and postoperative antibiotic treatment (PPAB) with 1.5 g of amoxicillin an hour before surgery and 500 mg three times a day for five days after surgery; and (3) postoperative antibiotic coverage (POAB) with 500 mg three times a day starting after surgery and continuing for five days after surgery. We conducted a comparison and follow-up of patients to detect antibiotic responses in the context of bone augmentation and dental implants.
Results: We recorded highly significant differences in age groups and gender. We observed highly significant differences (0.000, 0.000, and 0.041) on the third day, the 12th week, and after six months of follow-up. The results indicated that in group 1, 7 implants (11.6%) failed, while in group 3, only 2 implants (3.33%) failed. In contrast, in group two, all implants succeeded (100%).
Conclusion: The use of preventive antibiotics resulted in a very low infection rate. Conversely, the absence of preventive antibiotics significantly increased the infection rate. A higher number of studies were required to analyze the biological factors that contributed to failure in the case of various antibiotic doses and types.
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Comparative Study Regarding Activity of Emergency Dental Offices in Tirgu Mures and Oradea
Objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the activity of the Emergency Dental Office of UPU SMURD in Tîrgu Mures since its establishment and also to compare it with the similar unit from Oradea.
Methods: The two-year retrospective and comparative study is a statistical processing of non-personal data regarding the emergency dental services in the UPU SMURD Tîrgu Mures and UPU SMURD Oradea, involving the data collected in the same period at both emergency dental offices. Data based on the records analysis of the patients who were consulted and treated at the Emergency Dental Office in UPU SMURD Tîrgu Mure between February 1, 2012 − February 1, 2014 compared with similar data from Oradea.
Results: Assessing the number of patients presented each month − first and second year − we can see that since the establishment of the Emergency Dental Office in Tîrgu Mure (no=12780), the number of patients showed a linear increase in the first year, and in the second year the constant number of patients present in the studied unit was higher than in the other center from Oradea (no=4886).
Conclusions: The large number of patients and the nature of the cases that were present in the Emergency Dental Office in the UPU SMURD Tîrgu Mure show how necessary the set-up of this unit was.