Care for patients on anticoagulant therapy

In the September 2017 issue of Clinicians Report newsletter, the article “Anticoagulants: are they dental friendly or not?” overstated the bleeding risk in dental patients taking anticoagulants and understated the risk of embolism if anticoagulation therapy is interrupted for dental procedures. Rather than repeat the inaccurate information, an editorial set out to ma ke sure the correct information was available to dentists and could be shared with physicians.

Source: Dental Abstracts - September 1, 2018 Category: Dentistry Tags: Inquiry Source Type: research