I have mitrol valve prolapse. Do I need to take antibiotics before dental visit!
Question:
I have mitrol valve prolapse. Do I need to take antibiotics before dental visits?
Answers:
Hi There! the reason why we recomend the patient to take antibiotics is to prevent any bacteria to in your blood stream and end up in your heart ( Endocarditis)
Now under the new guidelines, only patients at the greatest risk of negative outcomes of Infective Endocarditis should take antibiotics before dental procedures. (heart transplant patients who develop cardiac valve problems, people with artificial heart valves, people with certain congenital heart conditions, recent ,within the previous six months, recipients of artificial patches to repair congenital heart defects and anyone with a history of IE.
People who will no longer need to take antibiotics prior to many dental procedures include those with MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE, rheumatic heart disease, bicuspid valve disease, calcified aortic stenosis or congenital heart conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ventricular septal defects or atrial septal defects.
The reason for the change in recommendations is twofold: 1) for most patients, the risks of taking antibiotics (mild to severe adverse reactions) now outweigh the benefits, and 2) overuse of antibiotics has become a worldwide problem that has led to drug-resistant bacteria.
The new recommendations have been endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. The guidelines will be published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. They were published in the April issue of the journal Circulation, good luck!