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cord-337955-4p6wbd0h	Mark, C.	Screening figures	2020-09-11		.txt	text/plain	664	47	54	The number of antibiotics dispensed each month by community pharmacists in England relating to NHS dental prescription forms from January 2018 to May 2020 is given in Figure 1 . 2 Antibiotics may have been used: • As a 'quick fix' to avoid the life-time impact of an unnecessary extraction, in anticipation that AGPs might soon be permissible in general dental practices • Because dentists felt pressured by some patients for antibiotics, irrespective of their efficacy or appropriateness for treating toothache • Because of difficulties diagnosing a patient's condition remotely prompting a 'just in case' approach through concerns of life-threatening deterioration without treatment Finally, the NHS may have seen an influx in patients who might otherwise receive care privately, resulting in an increase in NHS dental prescriptions as, anecdotally, not all practices were open for telephone triage during April and May 2020. When this figure is combined with the average number of patients that we have seen each week, since lockdown was eased, and the local population, this enables us to quantify the risk of us seeing an undiagnosed COVID-19 patient in the practice.	./cache/cord-337955-4p6wbd0h.txt	./txt/cord-337955-4p6wbd0h.txt