Dental infection control
In case of dental infection, problems are possible. In many medical and surgical, dental infection can be dangerous.
During a bypass
All dental focus of infection must be eradicated before CABG to prevent postoperative infection.
If you have a pacemaker
The probe implanted in the heart and connected to the pacemaker is a foreign body, which promotes the risk of infection. Patients with pacemakers should monitor their teeth in order to prevent any outbreak of infection.
Beware of anticoagulants
As a mandatory, people on anticoagulant therapy should prevent their dentist before any treatment because the drugs that are prescribed particularly in certain heart conditions increase the risk of bleeding, so bleeding. The dentist may request, in accordance with the prescribing physician, to stop these treatments just days before the care to make.
If surgery
Patent or latent, a dental infection can compromise the success of surgery, or endanger the life of a patient. That’s why, during the preoperative, a dental check is often prescribed to treat outbreaks.
For transplants and interventions at risk
The treatment of dental infections is essential before any court, such as kidney or heart. Indeed, setting
in place of a prosthesis or an organ requires extreme vigilance to ensure that the foreign body was not colonized by bacteria. Selected cardiac procedures performed in emergency lead the surgeon to identify the suspect tooth extraction, the prognosis of the patient in question.
In addition, transplant patients must take extra precautions, because anti-rejection medicament lower their defenses, any dental infection may then have serious consequences for those bodies weakened.
In Ophthalmology
It is common to make assessments before dental interventions on the eye, especially for cataract surgery, where the lens is replaced with a prosthesis. If the latter is reached by bacteria of dental origin, it will develop an infection could compromise the results of the intervention and cause loss of visual acuity.
In orthopedics
Any orthopedic surgery – hip prosthesis, knee surgeries and other bone – requires the same precautions.
In oncology
Practitioners ensure that no dental focus of infection, because the chemotherapy destroys much of the white blood cells, first barriers of defense against infection, in which case, a dental infection risk cause septicemia, which can be fatal. Any dental infection should also be eradicated if radiotherapy is considered the maxillary region.