THE INFLUENCE OF PREOPERATIVE ANTIBIOTICS ON SUCCESS OF ENDOSSEOUS IMPLANTS UP TO AND INCLUDING STAGE-II SURGERY - A STUDY OF 2,641 IMPLANTS

According to the American College of Surgeons, complex oral surgical p rocedures, including the transoral placement of endosseous implants, a re of the type that may require prophylactic antibiotics, However, the routine use of prophylactic antibiotics in the field of dental implan tology continues to be controversial, and their utilization varies wid ely, No data from a randomized prospective clinical study of the proph ylactic use of antibiotics in implant surgery have been previously pub lished, As part of the comprehensive Dental Implant Clinical Research Group clinical implant study, the preoperative or postoperative use of antibiotics, the type used, and the duration of coverage was left to the discretion of the surgeon, These data were recorded and correlated with failure of osseointegration during healing (stage I) and at stag e II surgery (uncovering), The results showed that significantly fewer failures occurred when preoperative antibiotics were used.