Discontinuation of Oral Antiplatelet Agents before Dental Extraction - Necessity or Myth?

Abstract

Background: The risk of excessive bleeding often prompts physicians to interrupt the antiplatelet agents as acetylsalicilyc acid and clopidogrel before dental extractions which puts patients at risk of adverse thrombotic events.

Keywords

• antiplatelet agents
• bleeding
• haemostasis
• tooth extraction
• local haemostasis