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Dental Consideration And Management Of The Cirrhotic Patients, Titipong Prueksrisakul

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

Cirrhotic patients require careful dental care because of several pathophysiologies and complications due to hepatic dysfunction. Dentists should understand basic knowledge about cirrhosis in order to be able to evaluate medical status of the individual cirrhotic patient preoperatively to reduce the risk of complications from dental treatment. This review article summarized information about etiology, clinical features, oral manifestations and severity of cirrhosis as well as dental consideration and management of cirrhotic patients, including preoperative patient assessment, modification of frequent drug use in dentistry, bleeding disorder and the risk of infection from dental treatment in order to encourage dentists to modify …