does vancomycin cause tooth decay?
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NO. Sugar + Bacteria = Decay. This sounds like an antibiotic that you may be spelling incorrectly. No antibiotic causes decay. Some cause discoloration of teeth that are forming below the gum line when a child takes them though.
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Patients admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have an intravenous (IV) catheter (small plastic tube) placed in their vein. Very occasionally (4 times out of 100) the insertion of an intravenous catheter may cause an infection in the blood. It has been shown that the removal of the catheter and the insertion of a new one at a new site helps to get rid of this infection. Sometimes, antibiotics are also given. \n\nVancomycin is the antibiotic given intravenously (into the vein) to treat these catheter-related infections. At Vancouver General Hospital, some physicians may not give any vancomycin at all whereas others may treat with intravenous (IV) vancomycin for one to fourteen days.
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Well, decay from teeth cannot go into the gum.... but it sounds as if you definitely have a problem going on.  I would recommend you see a dentist as soon as possible to make sure you do not have some type of oral cancer or periodontal disease.  If you have an infection and it is left untreated then yes, it will spread to other areas of your body and if it continues to go untreated then ultimately yes, it could be fatal.
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The problem with both is twofold. They both contain acid and sugar. The acid is not good for your teeth and gums and the sugar (added to cola, natural and/or added to juice) feeds bacteria which cause tooth decay.
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In advanced stages of tooth decay, you might experience a toothache, especially after consuming sweet, hot, or cold foods or drinks. Other signs of tooth decay are visible pits or holes in the teeth.Your dentist can discover cavities during your regular dental check-up. The tooth surface feels soft when probed by your dentist with a dental instrument. X-rays can also show cavities before they become visible to the eye.
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Listerine can kill the bacteria in your mouth... but you'd have to constantly be swishing with listerine. Antibiotics only help systemic bacteria, and the bacteria in your mouth are topical rather than systemic. Cavities work from the outside of your tooth inward, rather than the other way around.
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Flourides make teeth stronger. Acids make them weaker.
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Flouride replaces some of calcium in dentin, It also enters in reaction of bacteria calcifying Tartar to plaque making it much more difficult to remove and much more of a place for acids to build up from bacterias and attack tooth enamels, if this was any help I am sorry.
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Yes for these teeth you have prob. learned to late.  You can't floss every couple of days, it has to be everyday.  If you don't want more decay and rotten teeth, then floss everyday. You need to have these teeth extracted, abscessed teeth are nothing to play with, you can get seriously ill, or even die if you don't have them taken care of.  You need to learn to brush consistently and the right way.  You are not brushing as well on the lower because you are afraid of hitting the decayed teeth. You have to use a soft toothbrush and use small circular strokes with very little pressure.  You have used too much pressure on the lower, which has caused the recession.  I would suggest an electric toothbrush.  Flossing:  go in between each tooth wrap one side of the tooth like a "C" shape and wiggle up and down a few times and then do this to the other tooth in front, going all of the way around the mouth.  Again you don't have to use a lot of pressure, you don't want to injure or cut the gum tissue.  Decay is caused by bacteria and food debris which turns into acid, this causes decay.  Gingivitis and periodontitis are gum conditions.  The problem is you, you have to do the work in order to have a healthy mouth.  I know this is blunt, but you have to wake up and brush as much as possible, floss everyday, and see a dentist about your problem teeth.  Educate yourself on home care and about tooth decay and gum disease.  Use your search engine for help.
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Dental caries = cavities.  The progression goes something like this:\n1. Germs live in your mouth.  They've been there since you got your first tooth.\n2. You eat stuff.  Sugar and carb-rich food can be digested by the bacteria, and the end product is lactic acid.  The sugars are also used to form the "plaque" which is sort of an adhesive for the germs.\n3. The lactic acid erodes the calcium-rich enamel, eventually getting through the enamel.  \n4. The germs get though like a breach in a dam, and you wind up getting inflammation of the nerve, and eventually a full-blown infection (pulpitis, abscess).\n\n"Arrested caries" occurs when the germs have slightly eroded the enamel, but repeated dosing of fluoride (in water, toothpaste, etc.) have allowed it to re-mineralize.  \n\nArrested caries usually do not warrant treatment, but should be monitored by a dentist at regular check-ups.
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This is related to a tooth that is infected. The infection can surround the bone and make the area inflamed causing the abcess.This can occur in a tooth that has a nerve which is dying, or a tooth which has had a root canal treatment which has not worked effectively. Antibiotics are usually the first course of treatment and then a root treatment by your dentist, Anti inflammitory painkiller like ibuprofen is helpful for short term relief, but you need to visit your dentist asap.
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1) They can decrease your liver and kidney function over prolonged periods of use\n2) As susceptible bacteria are killed off & the resistant ones survive, the resistant strains will divide & multiply. Hence the population of resistant bacteria will increase. (the chance of this is greatly increased by not completing a course of antibiotics & by adding low doses to animal feed as growth promotants)\n3) World-wide overuse of many antibiotics can and has led to increased multi-resistant strains which are hard to treat (eg. MRSA & VRE)\n4) Ultimately can lead to treatment failure (ie. no more antibiotics left to use that will treat some infections)
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NO. Use cold and get to the dentist. You can spread the infection with heat. If it is an upper tooth you could even get an infection in your brain, you can get cellulitis and you can die.
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I am a dentist.\n\nYes, it can--asuming that "undiagnosed" means "uncontrolled".\n\nIt does not promote tooth decay, but it does promote periodontal disease.\n\nDiabetes is one of those diseases that screws with damn-near every system in your body, including your immune system.  Uncontrolled diabetes affects the function of certain immune cells called PMNs or "neutrophils", which are the "first-responder" cells that attack pathogens.  Neutrophils, believe it or not, can be found in the little crevice where your gingiva meets your teeth, i.e. the "gingival sulcus".  They are capable of exiting the blood vessels in your gingiva to attack bacteria that reside in the sulcus.\n\nWhen these neutrophils don't function properly, bacteria can run rampant and cause gingivitis and eventually periodontitis, and...and...\n\nPeriodontal disease is highly suspected to have deleterious effects on the body, particularly the cardiovascular system--being perhaps a risk factor in coronary artery disease and ultimately stroke and MI.  The connection is somewhat roundabout, admittedly.\n\nI would like to point out to you that uncontrolled diabetes is a RISK EQUIVALENT for coronary heart disease.  If you suspect you have diabetes (fatigue, polyuria, polydypsea, etc.), see your physician ASAP to be evaluated and have your blood tested.  Diabetes, when controlled, does not prevent you from living a perfectly normal life.
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It's a million-dollar question and answer!  There are currently a lot of researches on this subject.\n\nMost of the dentists currently agree that the is the most predominant bacteria in teeth with failed root canal therapy    is Enterococcus faecalis (gram negative, anaerobic).  This bacteria evolves and and is found to survive harsh conditions prevailing in the root canals of endodontically treated teeth.  Scientists believe that E. faecalis has the ability  to form calcified bio-film on root canal dentine.\n\nBesides physically cleaning the canal with the dental files, dentists use 2 main chemicals to treat or disinfect the root canal.  They are 17 percent ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetate (EDTA)and 2.5 percent sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). Recently, laser is also recommended as another method for sterilizing the canal.\n\nBroad spectrum antibiotics such as tetracycline and clindamycine are also very effective in controlling infection surrounding the root canal (apical pathology). Occasionally, at the last resort of trying to save the tooth, apicoectomy and root amputation are necessary to get rid of these persistent bateria and infection.
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I will try to make simple the decay process.\n\nToo much sugar?  Nope.  You can eat all the sugar you want.... you just have to eat it quickly!  and not go back for more too soon!  Bacteria do nothing in your mouth until they have sugar. Different sugars do make a bit of difference but for the most part the bacteria immediately begin using sugar as soon as they are fed.  They also store about a 1/2 hour supply.\nSo, upon getting sugar they begin to metabolize it and do what they do best with the energy...divide in half over and over again.\nDuring this time there are waste products produced.  Most notable is lactic ACID which softens teeth by removing MINERALS from them.  If the sugar exposure is stopped, the acid production will stop within about a half hour when the stores are used up and the acid slowly dilutes out of the plaque.  The softened teeth will just as readily harden back up using minerals floating around and actually may become harder than before the acid attack if less soluable minerals like FLUORIDE can be found.  BUT, if you have more sugar before the half hour is up you will allow the demineralization process to continue and the teeth which were softened will now be stripped of more of their minerals and like paper soaked in water will begin to come apart.\nNo amount of brushing can remove all the bacteria. They will be there ready to multiply especially in cracks and crevises. Brushing too soon after a sugar treat may actually strip away softened tooth surfaces if done too aggressively.\n\nDiet pop does NOT contain sugar.  If you soak a tooth in any carbonated beverage it will dissolve. That is not decay.  When we drink diet soda the acid is not left on the teeth for long and as a result the teeth soften little.  Lemon on the other hand is a strong acid in comparision and can quickly "eat" enamel and cause erosion (not decay) especially noticable along the gumline where the enamel is thing and the more easily dissolved root is.\n\nFluoride makes teeth less soluable in acid.  They do NOT dissolve better if they have a high fluorid content.  In fact this is how fluoride was discovered.  People with Brown Spotted teeth in Colorado, I believe, were found to have very little decay in their community. Fluoride was found in their water supply and the ideal amount that could be added without staining was determined.  The rest is history.\n\nFluoride gets incorporated most easily into teeth that are developing in the body or are recovering from and acid attack.\n\nFluoride in water and pills goes into developing teeth in children and makes them more acid resistant when the erupt into the mouth.  This gives the deepest protection.\nFluoride in toothpaste is absorbed only in the very outer layers of teeth.  It acts as a reservoir when there is an acid attack.  In the dental office ACIDulated fluoride is often used to create a controlled acid attack with Lots of fluoride around it to be used in the hardening back up stage. (no food or water for 1/2 hour)\n\nWhen a woman is pregnant...She snacks more.  Thus the weight gain.  Carbs are turned into sugar by saliva enzymes. Bread left on teeth is soon sugar left on teeth...Makes DECAY.  Teeth don't get soft by homone influence.  Only acid influence.\n\nDrugs don't cause decay.  They cause you to eat poorly and crash with gobs of crap in your mouth.  Acidic drugs like Meth smoke can cause EROSION of teeth.  Look at a meth users teeth and see how pitted they are from the acid.  Also they grind them like crazy and flatten them out.  Vomit?  Pretty acidic.\n\nPoor genes?  Teeth don't decay without acid.  One may have low mineral content in their teeth but those teeth will wear out just by chewing normally.\n\nProteins don't come out with acid attacks.  Minerals come out with acids.  Proteins are left.\n\nJuice has sugar and does cause decay.  Dilute it?? Nope.  The bacterial still get their half hour supply.\n\nFake sugar??  No decay.\n\nCough drops?
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yessss! although i dont think it's very common.  amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, streptamycin any of those plus other antioboitocs would work.  you should check with your dentist if this happened to your baby.