According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu vaccine is the best way to protect people against the flu and prevent its spread. The flu vaccine can also reduce the severity of the flu if a person contracts a strain of the flu that the vaccine did not contain. It takes about two weeks following vaccination for antibodies to protect against the flu.
Some dentists do not routinely prescribe antibiotics and still have successful implant cases. Their success rate may increase with using antibiotics, but may not (it is all a matter of odds). You are likely fine, but may consider a different antibiotic with fewer side effects.
My heart doctor recommended that I take antibiotics whenever I have dental work, so I always take the antibiotics as prescribed by my dentist, says Collett, a real estate manager from Tampa, Fla. Like many Americans, he needs to take antibiotics before having dental work to prevent a potentially fatal heart infection. I hate taking pills, Collett says. But when it comes to my heart, I'm not taking any chances. But too many of these people are taking chances, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.