Dental management in patients with Warfarin/Heparin therapy, before minor oral surgery (Extraction)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to know, how management the Dentists in patients with Warfarin/Heparin therapy، before minor oral surgery, and to Know if There is influence of specialize in OMFS in the results.The participants were 356 dentists (OMFS: 51.69%). The questionnaire was multiple choices. All choices were correct (various References). We asked the participants to choice the answer that they were used in their works, and to leave the answers (that they were not knew) empty. The data were analyzed in SPSS using Chi-square and Fisher Exact test.

 The study shows that  Some of respondents were prefer to not answered. It was 30,1% (Warfarin), 29,5% (Heparin) (P<0.05).

 22,5%, 9,8% of Dentists stop Heparin: 6 Hours, 6-8 Hours,(Respectively), before surgery (P<0.05). all other results in both medicaments were insignificant (P>0.05) .

The conclusion shows that Some of participants appear to haven't deep knowledge about the Dental management in patients with Warfarin/Heparin therapy before dental surgery (Extraction).