Pedro Diz Dios, Luis Monteiro, Kununya Pimolbutr, Margherita Gobbo, Katherine France, Mohammed Bindakhil, Haly Holmes, Francesca Sperotto, Laurel Graham, Federica Turati, Andrea Salvatori, Catherine Hong, Thomas P Sollecito, Giovanni Lodi, Martin H Thornhill, Peter B Lockhart, Valeria Edefonti
OBJECTIVE: To determine dentists' awareness and/or adherence to antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) guidelines for preventing infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with high-risk heart conditions. STUDY DESIGN: A systematic literature review was performed on MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Proquest, Embase, Dentistry, and Oral Sciences Source databases, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist...
June 2023: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology