Frequent Dental Scaling Is Associated with a Reduced Risk of Periprosthetic Infection following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Nationwide Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study

Oral bacteremia has been presumed to be an important risk factor for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) infection. We aimed to investigate whether dental scaling could reduce the risk of TKA infection. A nested case-control study was conducted to compare 1,291 TKA patients who underwent resection arthrop...

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Autores principales: Tai, Ta-Wei, Lin, Tzu-Chieh, Ho, Chia-Jung, Kao Yang, Yea-Huei, Yang, Chyun-Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27336912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158096

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