Abstract
The indiscriminate use of antibiotics is certainly no greater in dentistry than in any other area of the health professions. However, this is not reason enough to excuse a very poor and potentially dangerous practice. The mushrooming cloud of resistant organisms and sensitivity reactions is surely a by-product of this type of usage. The routine use of these agents in all dental procedures is to be condemned. However, when indicated, failure to make use of these agents with good judgment and with proper scientific logic is also to be condemned. There is, however, little doubt that the antibiotics together with good surgical judgment, as well as greater consideration for the patient's entire physiology, have contributed much to the improvement of the practice of dentistry.
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