For dog bites, just cleaning with soap plus water is sufficient. Also, the wound must be left open as much as possible. Suturing and Dressing must be avoided as much as possible. More important than the wound infection, the dreaded problem is rabies, to prevent that you MUST take the full course vaccine. Because there is no cure for rabies and it is rapidly fatal. The chances are more if the dog is a stray dog and the bite was unprovoked,