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Dentists from two areas of P-GC held similar knowledge about prescribing antibiotics and attitudes regarding antibiotic use (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&gt;\u20090.05). Most of the dental practitioners chose penicillins (65.0% amoxicillin with clavulanic acid and 33.1% amoxicillin) as the first-choice antibiotic in patients with no medical allergies. The trend of prescribing amoxicillin decreases with the age of the dentists (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.046). Clindamycin (86.6%) was the first choice for patients allergic to penicillin. Postgraduate education changed the attitude toward taking more time to consider whether or not an antibiotic is needed. Croatian dentists had a high awareness of antimicrobial resistance (99.4%). The most common situations for which dentists would prescribe antibiotics were periapical abscess (84.7%), periodontal abscess (72.6%), and implant placement (59.9%). Patient request or expectation (43.4%) and treatment uncertainty (41.5%) were found to be the main factors for prescribing antibiotics with more frequency.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Although there is a high level of antimicrobial resistance awareness among dental practitioners, there is still too much overuse of antibiotics and personal responsibility for prudent antibiotic use should be increased. The results of this study indicate that antibiotics are frequently prescribed for indications where surgical treatment should be the first option and the broad spectrum antibiotic is the preferred treatment option.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1089\/mdr.2020.0478","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,29]],"date-time":"2021-04-29T11:02:01Z","timestamp":1619694121000},"page":"1482-1488","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Antibiotic Prescribing Habits and Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness of Dental Practitioners in Primorsko-Goranska County, Croatia"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Maja","family":"Farka\u0161","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology, Teaching Institute of Public Health of Primorsko-Goranska County, Rijeka, Croatia."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nata\u0161a","family":"Ivan\u010di\u0107 Joki\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Rijeka Faculty of Dental Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia."},{"name":"Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Clinical Hospital Centre, Rijeka, Croatia."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Martina","family":"Mavrinac","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Informatics, University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arjana","family":"Tambi\u0107 Andra\u0161evi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, \u201cDr. Fran Mihaljevi\u0107,\u201d Zagreb, Croatia."},{"name":"Department of Microbiology, University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_5_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-2125.1999.00997.x"},{"key":"e_1_3_5_3_2","first-page":"7","article-title":"Antibiotic resistance\u2014the leading medical problem at the beginning of the 21st century","volume":"43","author":"Tambic Andrasevic A.","year":"2007","unstructured":"Tambic Andrasevic A. 2007. 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