I agree that both doctors and dentists have been too ready to prescribe antibiotics, sometimes in cases of mild infections which would have resolved anyway, and some, especially with dentists, as emergency treatment instead of properly opening and draining an abscess for example..
Apparently some antibiotics are becoming ineffective and this leads to combinations being prescribed but ultimately even these could become less than effective.
Unfortunately it seems that really new antibiotics are not easy to find or cost effective to develop so this is a problem that really needs addressing as you so rightly say.
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Yeah we really need to change the way that we think about antibiotics and their use. I cannot really speak about appropriate and inappropriate treatments done by dentists (because I am not a dentist haha). But I will write about some studies that show correlations between antibiotic use and occurrence of resistant strains. Thank you for your comment. Cheers!