Demographics, Practising Arrangements, and Standards: Survey among New Zealand Dentists

Table 6

Use of antibiotic prophylaxis in general dental practice.

For which patients do you routinely prescribe antibiotic prophylaxis?
	Actual frequency ()	Weighted percent (%)
(a) Patients at the risk of infective endocarditis	63	33.5
(b) Patients who have undergone prosthetic joint and replacement surgery	0	—
Both a and b	109	57.6
Both a, b, and others	13	6.91
Did not respond	3	1.9

Patients at the risk of infective endocarditis, usually ask GP for opinion, according to Heart Foundation recommendations and organ transplant.