Streptococcal bacteraemia in children following dental extractions.

Detection of Transient Bacteraemia following Dental Extractions by 16S rDNA Pyrosequencing: A Pilot Study

“…There are several culture-based microbiological procedures for the analysis of blood recovered after dental extractions. Procedures such as quantitative methods [7], semi-quantitative methods (lysis-centrifugation technique or lysis-filtration technique) [8], [9] or qualitative methods using automated reading systems based on the detection of the CO 2 produced by bacterial growth [10]–[12] have been used with the aim of detecting major bacterial species in transitory bacteraemias. Nevertheless, after reviewing published data of oral-derived bacteraemia significant differences were detected between studies in relation not only to the microbiological procedures applied, but also to the transport and culture media, the atmosphere and incubation times used, and the characteristics of the isolates phenotypic identification process [6], [13].…”

Bacteremia Incidence in Pediatric Patients under Dental General Anesthesia

“…found bacteremia as 89% and 78.1%, respectively, in adult patients with inflammatory diseases such as apical periodontitis, pericoronitis, or marginal periodontitis. In pediatric patients, these incidences were ranged from 0 to 83% 24,27 , 28 . In this study, the incidences of bacteremia were found as 69.2% and 72% following 1 single deciduous tooth extraction and permanent tooth extraction, respectively.…”

Transient Bacteremia in Pediatric Patients Following Dental Manipulation

“…17 Since bacteremia has been demonstrated in such patients prior to dental ma¬ nipulation, the significance of the aforementioned studies is question¬ able.1' Data are available, however, to show that extraction of normal teeth in pediatrie patients for ortho¬ dontic purposes is not associated with bacteremia.17 We can only con¬ clude from these studies that the bacteremia found in children follow¬ ing extraction of abscessed teeth is not causally related to the dental manipulation. We believe the data obtained in our study population to be more meaningful than that found in the other studies.…”