Frank Halling Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Fracture, Implant Dentistry, Clinical Medicine
Department of Dentistry, University of Marburg, Germany.
Dr. Frank Halling, working in the research field of dentistry, Dental pharmacology, Facial skin tumours, Multimorbidity, Polypharmacotherapy, Structure and quality of dental prescriptions. Frank Halling has completed his MD in 1984 and DMD in 1986 in University of Marburg. He started his residency in Hamburg in 1988 and finished it in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Clinic of Göttingen as Maxillofacial and Regional Plastic Surgeon.
Short Communication Open Access
Author(s): Frank Halling
Introduction: Antibiotics alongside with analgesics and local anesthetics are the most frequently used drugs in dentistry. Reliably structured figures concerning the actual number of prescriptions of antibiotics by dentists are hardly available. Materials & Methods: All antibiotic prescriptions of dentists for patients who are members of statutory health insurances in Germany from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2015 were included. The annual reports of the scientific institute of the AOK, the biggest statutory health insurance in Germany, were used as data basis. The types of antibiotics, the amount of prescriptions and therefore the prescribed defined daily doses (DDD) were analyzed. The results were compared to antibiotic prescriptions of German physicians and to data of internatio... view moreĀ»