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You don't get into any hospital without having BP, weight and temperature taken. It's sooo logical!

Exactly what I use, (except AIS), 4 Mbps and 30 gb/ month. Last year was 1100 baht, but now about 1600 baht per year. Went to AIS to recharge last week, and from now on can recharge online. And I watch Netflix, YouTube etc. + computer, phone.

Is your jaw clicking?

He said he had local in his cheek, so I'm wondering what block that was to anaesthetise the eye. That nerve, the sub-orbital, blocks the maxilla from 1 to 3 only.?

What car? They cost money!

An old Thai woman is feeding a stray and gets savaged by her pit bull. And you say "no sympathy"! I think that says a lot about your lack of humanity. Unbelievable.

You mean the only one who isn't a sycophant. I worked in England for 15 years in the 70's+, and we weren't respected at all. Just "Colonials"! But we were a source of cannon fodder and raw materials until those two-faced aristocrats ditched us, (and NZ), for their new European common market friends. And now we'll be crawling to a new buffoon!

48 is the lower wisdom tooth, unless you're an aborigine. A new crown on the implant should be normal cost....12,000 baht.

EDIT. Looks like the 3rd party insurance here covers the driver in a single vehicle accident, whether the driver is licensed or not. (Por Bor). Don't know about registration criteria.

Depends on which hospital.

30 baht card doesn't cover accidents. But most schoolchildren have insurance covered by the school. And 18,000 isn't expensive., depending on the op. and staying in hospital.

A lot of misquoting here. Most prostatitis infections are E. Coli for obvious reasons. All bacteremias are potentially dangerous, but usually the body deals with it. But sometimes with diabetics, old people, generally unhealthy, fat, smokers etc. it can't. And then we have acute prostatitis, cellulitis, fasciitis. But you're becoming blinkered in your one man battle against Streptococci. Perhaps listen to the doctors instead of rubbish talking about your "in depth research". You've diverted the subject from antibiotics after extraction, incidentally telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, to your prostatitis involving flora that is found in the oral cavity as well as in every other orifice in the body. And after all this pseudo intellectualism, you've probably never even examined a patient in your life!

Any invasive dental procedure forces bacteria into the bloodstream, even a scaling. So you're advocating Ab cover for all dental patients?

Like you, I've done oodles of research on hip replacement surgery. The best implant, the best approach, the best anaesthetic, the surgeon's expertise etc. etc. There's nothing I don't know about revision, failure rates and causes, rehabilitation etc. And guess what, even with my oral surgery experience,..... I still couldn't do one! And that's the bottom line.

The oral bacteria have nothing to do with the bacteria at the other end of the body under normal circumstances. If you've got inflammation of the prostate, (not infection), or UTI this is due to being stressed or run down or immuno-compromised or bad luck. And we're talking about oral prophylaxis; nothing to do with infections in other parts of the body. It's very frustrating arguing with people who weren't on the Oxford or Cambridge debating team! They can never stick to the point so as to try and prove they weren't wrong. As an aside, if your dentist took an hour to extract your lower 8, and fractured the mandible, I don't think he's an oral surgeon. Just another operator biting off more than he can chew; like we all do sometimes.

Because you only suffer once!

OK. I've just offered my expertise to "Xylophone", and as I'm being driven to Bangkok to have check up and x-rays after a hip replacement 2 and a half weeks ago, this stops me being bored! Firstly I've done thousands of lower wisdom teeth removals, usually impacted, and probably at least 100,000 other extractions. Post op any extracted tooth socket can get infected, and the stats are approximately 20%. However, for lower 8's the percentage is closer to 100%, especially if they are impacted and a flap is raised and bone removed. So when you see your wisdom tooth patient a few days to a week later,they look like a squirrel that has stored his nuts in his cheek pouches! They can't open their mouth, can't sleep, they stink and they hate you. The only treatment is hot and cold packs, NSAIDS and gentle rinsing. Now to the nitty-gritty. These infections are called,"dry sockets", because the blood clot breaks down and bleeds out 48 hours after the extraction, leaving bare bone,. Always painful. The treatment is to gently clean out the socket, try to make it bleed, and pack it with Alvogyl. This works in 20 minutes, but not as well for lower 8s. The point is, antibiotics cannot get to the source of the infection. They do not work! Sometimes you'll extract a tooth and the pus will pour out. Again, no Ab necessary. Of course if afterwards the submandibular gland is swollen, then give Amoxicillin for 7 days. But that's rare. .

The glaring mistake I perceive is that these articles and/or you, fail to address the main and salient point, which is that these bacteria only cause problems with compromised heart valves. The correct protocol here can almost be a life or death situation. As an aside, if you'd like me to explain why antibiotics are useless after extractions, you only have to ask.

Just an edit. Strep. are also found in the bowel, urinary tract, vagina etc. , so its unlikely oral bacteria would infect the urinary tract.

The trouble is, everybody uses quotes from Google without having any in-depth understanding of the various and complicated mechanisms related to the workings of the human body. It's not black and white! Two properly conducted studies can come up with 2 different end results; and they're both right. This is because of biological subtleties and different interpretations. So contrary to what the media and shallow social media blogs tell you, there is no magic bullet; just boring protocols to hopefully get a positive result. And of course, the waters are muddied further by ignorant idiots such as King Charles III, who is a laughingstock to British doctors!

First of all; I'm a dentist. It's strep. viridans found in the mouth, and it can compromise damaged or artificial heart valves only! The bacteria do this by settling behind the flap of the damaged valve, where blood flow is hindered and form a colony. Similar to the little atrial appendage in the heart during AF where blood clots hide sometimes. So 1 hour before invasive dental work you take 3 gms. Amoycillin. This also applies to any prosthesis for 3 months after the op. Eg. Hip replacement. Of course, I've been retired for 7 years now, so might have forgotten some of the big words used to impress!

The mind boggles reading these fairytales!

No different in Australia when the "inheritance" involves ex-wife, girlfriend, children, step-children, favored friends, nieces and nephews. And this stripping of the house and fighting over money usually happens while they're in hospital, still alive.

And dentists.

Amazing logic!