Intra-arterial infusion of antibiotics to severe odontogenic infection in diabetic patient: Report of a case

Today so many antibiotics are available to clinicians, so treatment of infections is easy. However it, is still difficult if patient's defenses are compromised, for instance, DM.We experienced a case of temporal phlegmon. The patient was a 46 year old man having DM. for 9 years. He was admitted to our clinic and was given IVD infusion and incisions. Then phlegmon seemed to be cured, but he had a relapse. We found that IV antibiotics infusion was not effective, so the patient was placed on a regime of 250 mg intraarterial CER infusion via suprathyroid artery 3 times a day for 6 days. The patient then had an uncomplicated course.