Bacteremia after supragingival scaling and dental extraction: Culture and molecular analyses.
L C ReisI N RôçasJ F SiqueiraM de UzedaV S LacerdaRmcp DominguesK R MirandaRoberto Magalhaes SaraivaPublished in: Oral diseases (2018)
Molecular methods revealed that dental extraction and supragingival scaling were associated with similar incidence of bacteremia in groups receiving or not prophylactic antibiotic therapy. However, blood culture revealed that antibiotic therapy reduced viable cultivable bacteria in the bloodstream in the extraction group.