Isolated organisms in oral infections, including two suspicious cases of chronic dental infections spread to other organs

Abstract

Statistics of the isolated organisms were observed as the oral infections treated at the department of dental and oral surgery in Toyohashi City Hospital in recent 7 years. Samples were gathered by means of needle aspiration from the closed abscesses.
Isolated organisms were total 1, 082 strains out of 823 cases. There were microaerophilic Streptococcus 442 cases (53.7%), α-Streptococcus 175 cases (21.3%), anaerobic bacteria 399 cases (48.5%) and others 66 cases (8.0%) .
We also reported two cases of the liver or pulmonary abscess suspected focal infection from that of chronic dental infections. Streptococcus anginosus was isolated from each abscess.