• María Verónica Cuevas-Gonzalez, Gabriela Anaid Mungarro-Cornejo, León Francisco Espinosa-Cristóbal, Alejandro Donohue-Cornejo, Karla Lizette Tovar Carrillo, Rosa Alicia Saucedo Acuña, Alma Graciela García Calderón, Dalia Abril Guzmán Gastelum, Graciela Zambrano-Galván, and Juan Carlos Cuevas-Gonzalez.
• Faculty of Health Sciences Valle de las Palmas, Autonomous University of Baja California, Baja CA, México.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Dec 16; 101 (50): e31345e31345.

BackgroundIt is estimated that up to 90% of head and neck infections have an odontogenic origin, which are considered among the most common in the oral cavity and maxillofacial region. Bacterial resistance has been 1 of the main problems related to the treatment of this type of infection in recent years. The frequency of this resistance is increasing, which is mainly due to patient self-medication and the mutations that bacteria present. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the antimicrobial resistance of antibiotics commonly administered for the treatment of odontogenic infections.MethodTo carry out the study, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus databases were reviewed using the keywords "odontogenic infection", "pharmacological treatment", and "microbial resistance. Studies whose main objective was the pharmacological treatment of odontogenic infections were selected. Exclusions were review-type studies, systematic reviews, or in vitro or animal model studies. For the analysis of risk of bias, the Checklist for Analytical Cross-Sectional Studies of the Joanna Briggs Institute was used. The search and analysis of the studies was carried out by 2 researchers independently.ResultsA total of 13 studies were included in this review. The mean age was 39.6 years; the location of the infection in the study subjects was in the submandibular and vestibular spaces; there were periodontal, periapical, and dentoalveolar lesions; the main microorganisms identified were Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Prevotella, Peptostreptococcus, Clostridium, and Klebsiella; and finally, the main microorganisms identified for bacterial resistance were penicillin, clindamycin and amoxicillin.ConclusionThe health professional is obliged to update their knowledge to avoid such antibiotic resistance and thus provide better patient care.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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