Psychological Assessment before Antibiotic Prescription: A Questionnaire Study!

In the field of dentistry, antibiotic prescription is mostly for prophylactic use for life-threatening diseases and prevention of postoperative infections. There are different opinions regarding antibiotic prophylaxis of healthy patients, but it is an important criterion medico-legally and for those who are medically compromised.3 The year 1998 was an important landmark as the Standing Medical Advisory Committee published “The Path of Least Resistance, ” which stated that dentists account for 7 % of all community prescriptions of antimicrobials. Simply put in numbers, it means that in the United Kingdom alone, dentists dispensed 3.3 million antibiotic prescriptions in the year 1993, which had increased to 3.5 million by the year 1996.4 Another study in the United Kingdom states tha