The American Heart Association has just released new guidelines for patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse.
With rare exception, taking antibiotics before your dental appointment or your surgical procedure is no longer required!
The rare exception would be somebody with severe mitral valve prolapse with significant mitral valve regurgitation. The few of you in my practice who have this are aware of who you are.
Things have come so far in the last 40 years with the issue of antibiotics in Mitral Valve prolapse patients. In 1970 it was two days of antibiotics before the dentist. About 1980 it was just one dose before and one dose after the dentist. Then about 1990 it reduced to one dose ONLY before the dentist, and now this good news of NO antibiotics before Dental work is most welcome by me and all my patients!
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