Thank you for your informative post regarding antibiotics and dental surgery. Now that I think about it I do not think the oral surgeon had either of my kids take any antibiotics. Even after my daughter got the dry socket. This is upsetting to me. Also as an aside, she has lately been terribly ill & is away at college. She went on Monday to campus health crt...said they couldn't prescribe anything?? We thought that was really weird. I insisted she go back. Whoever looked at her said they didn't even need to do a throat culture because her throat looked so bad & she has been running a temp for 4 days. They just gave her penicillin. Man this makes me mad. Strep can have serious effects on your heart and these dorks couldn't be bothered when she first went in. GRRRR. From now on I am going to be more pushy about docs prescribing antibiotics. I can understand that they don't want people taking them for viral infections but the prevention of endocarditis and scarlet fever are very, very important!!