Systemic antibiotics in Endodontics: new concepts

Abstract

The aim of this review was to adjust to the current reality, a previous proposition for the employment of antibiotics in Endodontics, caused by the growing number of reports about bacterial resistance among isolates recovered from the oral cavity. Among the new drugs that emerged in the last decade, none of them provides a viable option for it employment in antibiotic therapy in Dentistry. However, a reinterpretation of the existing drugs allowed proposing some changes to the protocol usually employed by clinicians. Given the great importance of a rigorous criterion to use antibiotics in modern dentistry, this study also presents a proposition about the clinical cases where these drugs are indicated.