Maxillary Infections Part II

Question 1

Fluoroquinolone MOA

Answer 1

Inhibit DNA synthesis

Question 2

Can get spontaneous tendon rupture on this drug.

Answer 2

Fluoroquinolones.

Question 3

Do not use this antibiotic in pediatric and adolescent populations.

Answer 3

Fluoroquinolones

Question 4

Fluoroquinolones end in what?

Answer 4

Floxacin

Question 5

Low dose clindamycin is…

Answer 5

Bacteriostatic

Question 6

Use this drug if you can’t use PENVK

Answer 6

Erythromycin

Question 7

Erythromycin static or cidal?

Answer 7

STATIC

Question 8

Abs that can be given to pregnant women.

FDA Category B

Answer 8

Penicillin and Erythromycin

Question 9

These taken with Erythromyin can cause cardiac rhythm disturbances.

Answer 9

Antihistamines or Caffeine

Question 10

Ab that can cause hearing loss.

Answer 10

Erythromycin

Question 11

Maximal dose of Erythromycin; more than this and you get ________.

Answer 11

4 grams/day

Hearing loss

Question 12

This antibiotic causes enamel hypoplasia.

Answer 12

Tetracyclines

Question 13

This accumulates in a specific anatomic space.

Answer 13

Pus

Question 14

An abscess accumulates between which structures?

Answer 14

Bone and periosteum

Question 15

The only true anatomic space in the head and neck.

Answer 15

Suprasternal space of Berns

Question 16

Spaces that require fluid accumulation to be consider a “space.”

Answer 16

Potential space

Question 17

Potential spaces for maxillary infections to spread.

Answer 17

Eye, ear, and brain

Question 18

Potential spaces for mandibular infections to spread.

Answer 18

Neck, mediastinum, diaphragm

Question 19

If the roots of an infected tooth are below the mylohyoid attachment, the infection manifests _______.

Answer 19

extraorally

Question 20

This is a non-odontogenic infection that can mimic one.

Answer 20

Cervicofacial cellulitis of childhood.

Infection of the nasolacrimal duct.

Question 21

The nasolabial fold is lost in these infections.

Answer 21

Odontogenic infections.

Question 22

This is present in infections that mimic non-odontogenic infections.

Answer 22

Nasolabial fold

Question 23

Any maxillary infection can spread to this sinus and kill the person.

Answer 23

Cavernous Sinus

Question 24

What’s different about the veins of the face?

Why is this bad?

Answer 24

Have NO valves!

Bad bc infections can move into the brain- no valves to stop it.

Question 25

If there’s an infection of the parotid gland, what is released upon palpation?

Answer 25

Saliva NOT pus!

Question 26

2/3 of pus-producing infections of the salivary gland are produced by what?

Answer 26

staph species

Question 27

1/3 of pus-producing infections of the salivary gland are made by what?

Answer 27

e. coli

Question 28

One of the most common mandibular infections.

Answer 28

Pericoronitis.

Question 29

Regions involved in Ludwig’s Angina

Answer 29

Submandibular
Sublingual
Submental