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For patients with penicillin allergy, which antibiotics are most commonly rx'd for dental procedures such as root canal or wisdom tooth extraction?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Several options: Reasonable choices would be cephalexin, clindamycin, azithromycin, and erythromycin, maybe sometimes a tetracycline (doxycycline and others). I can't say which of these might be most commonly used; probably it varies widely between different dentists. (Leaving aside whether an antibiotic really is needed just because of these procedures, which seems questionable.)

Answered 1/25/2018

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Dental work.: Check with your dentist for his/her preference, but you’d be OK with Clindamycin, Azithromycin or Erythromycin, to name a few.

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