Dentists should give antibiotics to high-risk patients to help prevent life-threatening heart infection: Study

The study, led by Professor Martin Thornhill from the University of Sheffield's School of Clinical Dentistry, suggests that current guidelines in the UK issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence against the use of antibiotics could be putting high-risk patients at unnecessary extra risk when undergoing invasive dental procedures, the university said in a press release on Thursday.

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