Inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics by health care professionals is a worldwide concern. This study evaluated the antimicrobial drugs prescribing pattern for patients attending the dental OPD of Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal. 1173 prescriptions of patients attending the dental OPD were collected randomly during 15 th July 2011 to 14 th January 2012. The data was analyzed using WHO guidelines. The average number of drugs prescribed was 2.3 per prescription. The

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... most commonly prescribed antimicrobials were amoxicillin (30.9%) followed by metronidazole (20.9%). Only 30.6% of antimicrobials were prescribed by generic name and 78.6% of antimicrobials belong to essential drug list (EDL) of Nepal. In this study, amoxicillin was the most commonly prescribed antimicrobials among dental outpatients.