Drug Abuse in Paediatric Dentistry: a Cross-Sectional Study

Sharma, Meenakshi; Tandon, Sandeep; Chugh, Tina; Sharma, Sanjay; Ps, Parmod; Aggarwal, Vishal R; Kashyap, Nilotpal

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2014/7134.4163

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“…This was similar to the study conducted by Roda et al, 15 in which combination of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid was the most common antibiotics prescribed, whereas in the study done by Sharma et al, 16 amoxicillin alone was the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in dental practice. Since control and prevention of infection is an important factor in outpatient dentistry and the most common pathogens are gram-positive bacteria, so the use of systemic antibiotics like amoxicillin is justified.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Out of all analgesics prescribed, 80.12% of analgesics was given as combination of ibuprofen and paracetamol which was in higher level when compared to the study, 16 where the same combination was used in 42.7%. Combining these two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs does not improve the efficacy of treatment as they act on the same enzyme and offer no synergism.…”

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confidence: 85%

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Study of dental disease pattern and drug utilization evaluation among patients visiting dental outpatient department of tertiary care center

Shrestha

Shrestha²,

Koju

et al. 2020

JCMC

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Background: Oral health has been an integral component of general health, with a serious impact on the quality of life and the overall well-being. Limited availability and accessibility of oral health services are risk factors for poor oral health and diseases. This study aimed to observe common dental disease pattern and to evaluate drug utilization pattern among patients visiting Dental Out-Two hundred forty prescriptions were collected and analyzed. Descriptive statistical analysis was carried out to find out common dental disease pattern and to evaluate drug utilization pattern.Results: Total 240 prescriptions were analyzed. Pulpitis 54 (22.5%) was the most common diagnosis, followed by periapical abscess 34 (14.16%). Out of 411 drugs prescribed, 166 (40.38%) were analgesics, 116 (28.22%) were antibiotics and 93 (22.62) were topical agents. Combination of paracetamol with ibuprofen was most commonly prescribed analgesics 133 (80.12%) and combination of amoxicillin with clavulanic acid was most commonly prescribed antibiotics 51 (43.97%). Out of all drugs prescribed, fixed dose combination was given in 194 (47.20%). Only 260 (63.26%) drugs were given by generic name and 133 (32.36%) drugs were from National List of Essential Medicines-Nepal.

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Study of dental disease pattern and drug utilization evaluation among patients visiting dental outpatient department of tertiary care center

Shrestha

Shrestha²,

Koju

et al. 2020

JCMC

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“…Two main reasons for its use in paediatric dentistry are control of oral infection and prevention of the sub-acute bacterial endocarditis. 11 Present study showed that most commonly used fixed dose combinations were ibuprofen and paracetamol which is similar to the study conducted by Sharma et al 12 Oral route was the most frequently used for drugs administration (98.89%) which is similar to the study conducted by Raducane et al where the frequency of oral route was found to be 95.2%. In a similar study conducted by Sharma et al the most frequently prescribed drugs were NSAIDS (43.8%) which is similar to our study where the frequency of NSAIDS prescribed were 50.67%.…”

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confidence: 84%

A Prospective Drug Utilisation Study and Pharmacoeconomic Analysis in Paediatric Dentistry at a Tertiary Hospital

Shrestha¹,

Pradhan²

2020

Med. J. Shree Birendra Hosp.

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Introduction: Paediatric dentistry is the branch of dentistry dealing with children from birth to adolescence. Children tend to suffer from various dental conditions which can be primarily infective in nature and hence requires drugs that can be expensive. Drug utilisation data are needed for developing and monitoring policies because data on drug expenditure are not sufficient. Methods: This was a prospective cross-sectional study conducted in the Department of Pedodontics (paediatric dentistry) of a tertiary care teaching institute in Kathmandu, Nepal from July 2019 to December 2019. During the study period a total of 200 prescriptions were collected. Analysis was conducted using MS excel 2016 and further required analysis was done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences v22.0. Results: A total of 200 prescriptions were analysed during the study period, of which 126 were males whereas 74 were females. The most common drug prescribed was paracetamol whereas amoxicillin was the most commonly prescribed antibiotics. Most common condition was periapical abscess but space infection was the most expensive condition.There was no statistically significance between the cost of drugs prescribed for the male and female patients. Conclusions: The drug prescription pattern was found to be rational. Every institution must have their own Drugs and Therapeutics Committee as has been suggested by WHO, so that patients will be benefited through decreasing economical burden, and adverse drug reactions and that by this, therapeutic effect will be increased.

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“…Indeed, the misuse of antibiotics is serious and widespread not only in China but worldwide [14]. The widespread use of antibiotics for a variety of infections unrelated to syphilis may result in the incomplete treatment of patients with undiagnosed underlying syphilis [15], due to the coincidental administration of antibiotics for other conditions.…”

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Re-evaluating the sensitivity of the rabbit infectivity test for Treponema pallidum in modern era

Tong

Zhang

Zhu

et al. 2017

Clinica Chimica Acta

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Drug Abuse in Paediatric Dentistry: a Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Study of dental disease pattern and drug utilization evaluation among patients visiting dental outpatient department of tertiary care center

Study of dental disease pattern and drug utilization evaluation among patients visiting dental outpatient department of tertiary care center

A Prospective Drug Utilisation Study and Pharmacoeconomic Analysis in Paediatric Dentistry at a Tertiary Hospital

Re-evaluating the sensitivity of the rabbit infectivity test for Treponema pallidum in modern era

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