title: Drugs in oral surgery. Brief guidelines for adult patients.
abstract: Drugs administrable in oral surgery for adult patients are antiseptics-antibiotics, antiinflammatory-analgesics and sedative-hypnotics. Such drugs can be administered before, during or after oral surgery. Sedative-hypnotics can be administered before or during oral surgery in order to control the patient's anxiety. Anti-inflammatory-analgesics, on the other hand, can be administered before or after oral surgery to lower edema and pain. For this purpose, FANS are the most commonly used drugs but, in more traumatic oral surgery, the administration of a single pre-surgery dose of corticosteroids is suitable. As regards, antibiotics have to be given from 15 min to 1 h before oral surgery and continued or otherwise for 24-48 h depending on the dosage. post-surgery infection onset, in fact, is higher within 3 h after oral surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dentistry and Stomatology and Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Grassi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pappalardo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Benedittis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petruzzi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Giannetti
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cappello
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Baglio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D011182:Postoperative Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011229:Preanesthetic Medication
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives