Leading UK dental health bodies are urge professionals and patients to #keepantibioticsworking with Thunderclap campaign for European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2017.
In the UK, dentists prescribe more than 5% of all antibiotics and approximately 60% of the total metronidazole in primary health care.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem that leads to antibiotics no longer being effective in treating even simple infections.
To coincide with European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) on 18 November, UK-wide dental and public health organisations have joined forces to urge oral health professionals to pledge their support for more responsible prescribing.
The Faculty of General Dental Practice (FGDP(UK)) is working with the Association of Clinical Oral Microbiologists (ACOM), the British Dental Association (BDA), Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the Antibiotic Action initiative, to ask members to join a social media ‘Thunderclap’ on 18 November.
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