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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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Autor principal: Lee, Jeong Keun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-61174622018-09-04 Dental management of patients on anti-thrombotic agents Lee, Jeong Keun J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg Invited Review Article 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. The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2018-08 2018-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6117462/ /pubmed/30181980 http://dx.doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2018.44.4.143 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117462/
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