Abstract
It has been reported that bacteriemia during dental procedures is one of the most frequent causes of infective endocarditis (IE) . A questionnaire was given to general dental practitioner to investigate how they treat patients with IE. The results were as follows: 1) Most dentists knew IE to some extent but did not understand the exact methods of preventing it during dental procedures, 2) Most dentists knew the importance of prophylaxis of IE when surgical procedures were conducted, but did not pay much attention when scaling was performed. These results indicated an insufficient understanding of IE among dentists.
