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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.
February 17, 2011 â Dental patients should not take prophylactic antibiotics simply because they have pacemakers or implanted defibrillators, according to a new statement from the American Heart Association (AHA).t's quite a big problem, he said. There is no evidence that antibiotics can prevent infections of implanted devices caused by dental procedures, he said, but the antibiotics may cause allergic reactions and create resistant strains of bacteria.