Antibiotics in odontology
Antibiotic resistance is a world-wide severe threat to modern health care. Many of the treatment options available today are dependent on access to efficient antibiotics.
The development of antibiotic resistance has been acknowledged as one the major threats to all mankind. The most important mean to counteract this development is to minimize antibiotic utilization and to prevent further dissemination of resistant bacterial strains. In an international perspective, odontology accounts for approximately 10% of all antibiotics prescribed in health care.
Principal Investigator
- Margareta Hultin, Associate Professor, Consultant in periodontology
Project: Implications and consequences of antibiotic prescription in oral and maxillofacial surgery as basis for rational antibiotic utilization in odontology
The overall purpose of the research of our group is to provide knowledge regarding prescription patterns, clinical effects, ecological consequences and risk of development of antibiotic resistance due antibiotic usage in dentistry with special emphasis to implant surgery and surgical treatment of peri-implantitis.
Members
- Bodil Lund, PhD, professor, Oral and maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 4Medical Unit of Plastic Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Jaw Orthopedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sofia Tranæus, professor, Swedish Agency for Health and Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services, Malmo University, Faculty of Odontology
- Aron Naimi-Akbar, Associate professor, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Malmo University, Faculty of Odontology
- Bengt Götrick, professor, Malmo University, Faculty of Odontology
- Caroline Riben Grundström, PhD- student, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden, Department of Periodontology, Specialist Clinic Kaniken, Public Dental Health Service, Uppsala, Sweden
- Andreas Cederlund, Associate professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Eastmaninstitutet, Folktandvården Stockholm, Sweden
- Georgios N. Belibasakis, Professor, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
- Niko Vähärsarja, Assistant professor, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden