Overuse of tetracycline in oral diseases of odontogenous origin

Authors

  • Hilda Rodríguez Chala Clínica Estomatológica Párraga. La Habana
  • Odalys Solar Carballo Clínica Estomatológica Párraga. La Habana

Keywords:

antibiotics, self-medication, tetracycline, mouth conditions.

Abstract

The use of antibiotics in treating infectious diseases was a breakthrough in the history of mankind. However, there is at present an excessive use of these drugs that leads to antimicrobial resistance and ineffectiveness. Forty patients, who took tetracycline for oral diseases of odontogenous origin, were studied to find out the oral diseases where this drug was overused as well as the intake mechanisms (self-medication or prescription). The achieved results showed that odontalgias from pulpar disturbances and acute dentoalveolary abscesses are the oral pathologies where tetracycline is irrationally overused through self-medication and prescription by physicians. Self-medication was the most frequent way of administering tetracycline with 67,5% of cases in which several factors conditioning this behaviour were noted. There was a high percentrage of ineffectiveness in the use of tetracycline for oral disturbances because either it was not the antibiotic of choice for a certain pathology or it was taken unnecessarily.

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Published

2007-02-09

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Rodríguez Chala H, Solar Carballo O. Overuse of tetracycline in oral diseases of odontogenous origin. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2007 Feb. 9 [cited 2025 Jun. 20];44(1):8-14. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2514

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 1 (2007): JAN- MAR

Section

Research Article

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