Association of Amoxicillin Use During Early Childhood With Developmental Tooth Enamel Defects
While the relationship to dental problems is not a big surprise, the number of infants that received a prescription for amoxicillin in this study by age 32 months is a mind blowing, staggering 91%. How did we ever survive the past million years without antibiotics? It’s a good thing we have astute pediatricians with concern for destruction of normal flora with antibiotics and the havoc that destruction can wreak on a naive immune system…