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Dental management of patients on anti-thrombotic agents
The number of geriatric patients seeking dental service is ever-rising because of increased life expectancy, also with problem of increased chronic medical conditions. One of them are patients on anti-thrombotic medication. Bleeding complication after minor oral surgery by anti-thrombotic agents is...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181980 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2018.44.4.143 |
Sumario: | The number of geriatric patients seeking dental service is ever-rising because of increased life expectancy, also with problem of increased chronic medical conditions. One of them are patients on anti-thrombotic medication. Bleeding complication after minor oral surgery by anti-thrombotic agents is of concerns to dentists on dental management of these patients. Risk and benefit of the anti-thrombotic agents must be weighed before initiating dental procedures, which should be established as a treatment guideline. Purpose of the paper is to optimize the management of the dental patients on anti-thrombotic medication via standardization of treatment protocol of such a patient. |
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