Survey of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Dental Implant Surgery in Northwest China, 2021

Northwest China dentists were surveyed on antibiotic use during dental implant surgery from April to December 2021. The dataset contains responses from 318 dentists regarding their awareness, prescription habits, and concerns about antibiotic prophylaxis. It was created by Yao Lin and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional prescription patterns for antibiotics based on survey responses from 318 dentists.
• Study the correlation between specific patient conditions, like bone grafts, and extended antibiotic use based on the reported 85.08% rate.
• Identify knowledge gaps and concerns among practitioners regarding antibiotic indications based on the 44.40% of respondents reporting concerns.

Strengths

• Includes specific, reported statistics such as 65.41% of respondents routinely prescribing antibiotics.
• Survey conducted following STROBE guidelines, suggesting a structured methodological approach.
• Clear temporal and geographic scope: data collected from northwest China between April and December 2021.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (17.0 KB), indicating limited scope and detail.

Provenance

Source

Yao Lin via figshare.

Collection Method

Web-based cross-sectional survey sent to 2,099 dentists.

Time Range

Survey conducted from April to December 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 06:20:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northwest China.