Intra-arterial infusion of antibiotics to severe odontogenic infection in diabetic patient: Report of a case

Abstract

Today so many antibiotics are available to clinicians, so treatment of infections is easy. However it, is still difficult if patient's defenses are compromised, for instance, DM.
We experienced a case of temporal phlegmon. The patient was a 46 year old man having DM. for 9 years. He was admitted to our clinic and was given IVD infusion and incisions. Then phlegmon seemed to be cured, but he had a relapse. We found that IV antibiotics infusion was not effective, so the patient was placed on a regime of 250 mg intraarterial CER infusion via suprathyroid artery 3 times a day for 6 days. The patient then had an uncomplicated course.