Medical considerations before seeing your Dentist

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Do you take antibiotics before you visit the Dentist ?

                          then read this .....

     The American Heart Association (AHA) now                                          

recommends that only patients at the greatest risk 

from IE (infectious endocarditis) should take

preventive antibiotics.

     According to the AHA, prophylatic antibiotics

are no longer needed before a dental visit for

individuals with:

                  1)  Mitral valve prolapse

                  2) Rheumatic heart disease

                  3) Bicuspid valve disease

                  4) Calcified aortic stenosis

                  5) Congential ( present from birth)

                       heart conditions such as ventricular

                       septal defect, atrial septal defect

                       and hypertophic cardiomyopathy

Please contact your Physician to be certain of your

need to be premedicated before visiting your dentist.