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Prophylactic: A preventive measure. The word comes from the Greek for an advance guard, an apt term for a measure taken to fend off a disease or another unwanted consequence. A prophylactic is a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring.
Recommendation 1 is supported. by the highest grade of evidence of. the three recommendations, and it. proposes that the practitioner con-. sider changing the longstanding. practice of prescribing prophylactic. antibiotics for patients who undergo. dental procedures.