Oral Health and Dental Management

Battle of the bugs

8^th International Conference and Exhibition on Dentistry & Oral Care

April 18-20, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Nausathkhan Ubayathulla

Ministry of Health- Fujairah, UAE

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

There have been many advances in the management of head and neck infections over the past decade. New classes of antimicrobial agents, non-invasive imaging techniques, improved culturing methods are just some of the changes that have occurred which have enhanced dramatically our ability to diagnose and treat these infections with speed and accuracy. Concerns among the lay population regarding the perceived shifting of infectious disease patterns and their subsequent manifestations have become a topic of discussion in the news media. For example, Time magazine has suggested that antibiotics are so overused that the human body has become saturated and that the human immune system is so depressed that it provides an environment for the creation of �??�??bacterial monsters�??�??. The impressive ability of bacteria and viruses to adapt, change and mutate in response to our pharmacologic bombardment is a testimony to the complex and unpredictable nature of these microbes. For every new drug we formulate, resistance develops to an older and often used one. For every organism that we eradicate, another one suddenly emerges to take its place. To those of us in the clinical trenches, it seems that we are in a war with an ever-expanding number of increasingly virulent and destructive microbes.

Biography :

Email: nausathkhan@gmail.com