Oral and dental care of patients at risk of infective endocarditis

Key messages

The dental care of patients at risk of infective endocarditis is multidisciplinary and complex. The dental treatment options are limited in high-risk patients, with some oral and dental procedures currently contraindicated in the French guidelines, which are old (ANSM 2011).

The purpose of the updated guidelines is to define patients at high or intermediate risk of infective endocarditis, to improve the dental care of patients at high risk of infective endocarditis, based on a critical review of the literature, which has led to an increase in the number of authorised invasive procedures (with or without antibiotic prophylaxis), and to reduce the number of situations requiring tooth extractions.