Should you be premedicated before dental treatment?
According to the American Heart Association, the following conditions require antibiotic premedication prior to treatment:

1. Most congenital cardiac malformations
2. Congenital heart disease
3. Rheumatic fever with heart damage
4. Heart valve surgery
5. Previous history of infective endocarditis
6. Indwelling transvenous cardiac pacemaker within one year
7. Mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation
8. Surgically constructed systemic-pulmonary shunts
9. Reduced capacity to resist infection
    a. Some corticosteriod or other immunosuppresive therapy
    b. Anticancer chemotherapy
    c. Acute leukemia, agranulocytosis, sickle cell anemia
10. Uncontrolled unstable diabetes mellitus
11. Renal transplant and hemodialysis
12. Glomerulonephritis
13. Active renal disorders
14. Prosthetic joint replacement
15. Grossly contaminated traumatic facial injuries and compound    fractures
16. Aortic stenosis
17. Vascular grafts
18. Myocardial infarction within past 6 months
19. Cardiac bypass surgery within one year
If you have any of these conditions, make sure you tell your dental health care provider before any treatment is rendered. For further information, contact the American Heart Association at www.americanheart.org.
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