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T he antimicrobial stew- ardship is a corner stone in any infection prevention and control pro- gramme. Its self funded nature is attributable to its great ben- efit to the patient and the com- munity. It is well appreciated that the judicious use of anti- microbial therapy decreases the side effect of the medica- tion, including the potentially lethal anaphylactic reaction, and prevents the development of highly resistant strains and their dissemination in health care and community set- tings. In the period between 2008 and 2010, the antibiotic stewardship programme initi- ated by the Scottish Antimicro- bial Prescribing Group (SAPG) was successful in signifi- cantly reducing the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection in Scotland through optimising antimicrobial pre- scription along with imple- menting good infection pre- vention measures in hospitals and primary care (Nathwani et al., 2011). The importance of the programme became funda- mental in an era of wide- ly spread highly resistant nosocomial and community acquired infections such as methicillin resistant Staphy- lococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin resistant Staphy- lococcus aureus (VRSA), van- comycin resistant Entero- coccus (VRE), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae and Sten- otrophomonas maltophilia. With the increasing risk of encountering these multi- ple resistant microorganisms in the dental practice, we believe that the dental team members have a duty of care toward their patients and the community to avoid estab- lishment and dissemination of such infections (O’Leary et al., 2011). Therefore, they should be trained on the ap- propriate use of antimicrobial agent for the prophylactic and therapeutic purposes. There is a consensus be- tween the guidelines of the American Heart Association (AHA, 2007) and the Nation- al Institute for Clinical Ex- cellence (NICE, 2008) that the benefit of endocarditis prophylaxis for dental treat- ments is unproven. Therefore, NICE recommended no an- tibiotic cover for any pa- tients receiving dental treat- ment. However, the AHA recommended antimicrobial cover only to those patients who are classified as “at risk” of infective endocarditis. In- terestingly, Thornhill and col- leagues (2011) excluded any significant increase in the incidence of infective endo- carditis and its complications following the implementa- tion of NICE guidelines in the hospital of England despite The antimicrobial stewardship programme Why is it important in dentistry? asks Andrew Smith and Noha Seoudi ‘It is well appreci- ated that the judi- cious use of antimicrobial therapy decreases the side effect of the medication’