The Dental Practitioner
The Dental Practitioner
ADANSW Centre for Professional Development
The Microbe Strikes Back: Dentistry and Antibiotic Resistance
28 minutes Posted Nov 17, 2020 at 10:00 pm.
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For billions of years bacteria have inhabited the earth. These microbes are survivors; highly adaptable to external forces and enhanced abilities to evolve rapidly in changing environments. However, since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have predominantly kept the ravaging effects of harmful bacteria at bay ... until now. Due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals worldwide and a lack of new drug development by pharmaceutical companies, bacteria are back! They...