Goldberg M | Volume 1; Issue 2 (2020) | Mapsci-JBAR-1(2)-012 | Editorial Citation: Goldberg M, The global cost of endodontic therapies. J Biomed Allied Res. 2020;1(2):1- 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37191/Mapsci-2582-4937-1(2)-012 1 The Global Cost of Endodontic Therapies Michel Goldberg * Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Fundamental and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Oral Biology, Paris Cité University, INSERM UMR-S 1124, 45 rue des Saints Pères 75006 Paris, France. * Corresponding Author: Goldberg M Faculty of Fundamental and Biomedical Sciences, INSERM UMR-S 1124. 45 rue des Saints Pères 75006 Paris, France. Tel: 33-662-67-67-09. Received Date: 01-09-2020; Accepted Date: 01-17-2020; Published Date: 01-21-2020 Copyright © 2019 by Goldberg M. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Editorial The yearly global economic impact of dental diseases is about $442 billion. The direct costs due to dental diseases are $298 billion annually, corresponding to 4.6% of global health expenditure. Each year an amount of $400 billion is spent, including millions of dental procedures and pointing to imperative needs for tooth therapies [1]. Annual fees and implications Root filling therapies display a 17% increase/per year for a population with low caries prevalence [2]. Severe odontogenic infections implicate the length of stay at the hospital; antibiotic administered, intensive care unit stay, co-morbidities, and cost implications. Statistics indicate that about 2.5 million endodontic cases were treated in 1995. The selection of antibiotics Antibiotics are used in dental practice to prevent and cure topical or systemic infections. For dental surgeons, the association of amoxilline – clavulanate is predominant. The cost of daily doses of antibiotics was 47.18 Euros/1000 inhabitants/day. Following the prescribtions combining penicillins (betalactams and fluorquinolones), the National Health Care System evaluates the cost for dental treatments at 334.12 million euros. Amoxicillin associated with clavulanic acid account for 67.8% of all prescriptions and 59.4% of the total cost. Spiramycin and metro-nidazole association account for 13.34% of the prescriptions, and represents the most used by dental practitionners [3] listed the ideal properties of endodontic sealers. They were aiming to establish a hermetic closure, dimensionally stable, that does not cause discoloration of the tooth, with a slow stetting time, and insoluble in tissue fluids. It should have anti-microbial properties, be nonirritant, and allows an increased adhesion between the Journal of Biomedical and Allied Research An Open Access Journal ISSN: 2582-4937