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How do antiplatelets and anticoagulants affect extraction?

BDJ Student volume 29, pages 34–35 (2022)Cite this article

Before you do extractions it is essential that you have the up-to-date medical history and have thoroughly checked that the patient is not on any medications that could impact on the healing of the site.

Procedures that have very low, low and high risk of post op bleeding are shown in Table 1.1

Table 1 Very low, low and high risk procedures
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