Antibiotic stained tooth

  • Prof Chris Dean
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Antibiotic stained tooth. Prof Chris Dean. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A confocal microscope image of a child’s tooth dentine which shows the staining caused by successive doses of tetracycline during antibiotic treatment as the dentine has formed. The brightest stain represents a large dose and the less intense lines smaller doses. This all indicates an erratic, poorly supervised course of antibiotic therapy. Biomedical Image Awards 1998.

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