Will I be okay if I am having a wisdom tooth pulled out tomorrow and i have only taken a few antibiotics ?
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If you are saying you were supposed to take a lot more antibiotics but for whatever reason you haven't then do tell your Dentist. Call the office and tell them truthfully what you have and haven't taken. Let him/her decide. Teeth can cause a lot of problems and you don't want to get sick. It may or may not be oki.
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No,You should have finished what ever was prescribed for you.
yes, the antibiotics are only as a PRECAUTION.
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The drug treatment is intended to prevent bacterial endocarditis, a dangerous infection of the heart valves and lining. Although the disease is rare, prevention is considered essential because endocarditis can be fatal or cause devastating complications, including destruction of the heart valves and stroke.
The antibiotics are recommended because people with certain heart conditions have an increased risk of endocarditis after any dental procedure, like extraction or cleaning, that causes enough bleeding to allow large numbers of the bacteria that normally inhabit the mouth to invade the bloodstream. ''Bacteria floating in the blood can lodge in the heart and establish housekeeping, and you get endocarditis,'' said Dr. Adnan S. Dajani, an author of the guidelines and director of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Michigan, in Detroit.
In addition to dental work, some surgical procedures also let bacteria into the blood and increase the risk of endocarditis: they include operations on the respiratory, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts.
The people at risk for endocarditis include those who have had it in the past and those who have had surgery to replace heart valves or correct certain other defects. Some congenital heart problems also increase the risk, as does valve damage resulting from rheumatic fever.
Many people are also thought to be at risk because of a condition called mitral valve prolapse, in which a valve on the left side of the heart is slightly deformed. Mitral valve prolapse is a common diagnosis, affecting about 5 percent of the population, particularly women. It is also a controversial diagnosis, because some doctors think that many patients are told they have it when they really do not. But not even all the patients who do have mitral valve prolapse also have an increased risk of endocarditis, according to the guidelines: only patients whose valves actually leak, allowing blood to flow backwards, need to take antibiotics.
The new guidelines recommend lower doses of antibiotics because studies have shown that the lesser amounts still produce levels in the bloodstream high enough to kill off any bacteria that might invade after medical or dental procedures.
Asked to comment on the new guidelines, Dr. Marian Limacher, a professor of medicine in the cardiology division at the University of Florida in Gainesville, said she was pleased that they were based on data on blood levels of the antibiotics. ''The new guidelines are more logical than the previous ones,'' she said. ''It makes sense to give the dose that we know achieves an adequate blood level.''
Normally, people don't take any antibiotics before having their wisdom teeth pulled, that is supposed to come after the procedure. Dentists prescribe them to keep the open gum line from getting infected. I'm pretty sure you'll be ok. When in doubt, ask your dentist. :) Good luck.
Normally you should be on the antibiotics for at least 3 days before you have an abscessed tooth pulled. When you have an abscessed tooth and are not taking antibiotics it will be hard for the Dentists to get you numb enough to pull the tooth. Infection interfere with anesthesia.
Absolutely fine!
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