Table 3.

Dental prescribing of oral antibiotics as a percentage of all oral antibiotic prescribing

Drug name	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2010- 17
Amoxicillin	18.3	18.9	17.5	18.6	18.5	18.9	18.0	18.2	18.4
Ampicillin	2.0	2.6	2.2	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5
Co-Amoxiclav	0.4	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.0	0.8
Flucloxacillin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Phenoxymethylpenicillin	2.4	2.1	1.7	1.4	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.6	1.4
All Penicillins	11.4	11.7	11.0	11.3	11.1	11.2	10.8	10.7	11.2
Cephalosporins	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.7	1.1
Tetracyclines	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.3
Azithromycin	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
Clarithromycin	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2
Erythromycin	6.7	7.2	7.1	7.9	8.1	8.9	9.2	9.6	7.8
All Macrolides	4.1	4.0	3.6	3.6	3.4	3.3	3.0	2.8	3.5
Clindamycin	43.9	36.0	30.1	24.8	20.5	18.2	16.3	14.6	24.6
Metronidazole	56.5	56.8	56.9	57.5	57.5	57.1	57.1	57.0	57.0
All Oral Antibiotics	11.2	11.5	10.8	11.0	10.8	10.7	10.3	10.0	10.8