Clinical Post-operative Bleeding During Minor Oral Surgical Procedure and In Vitro Platelet Aggregation in Patients on Aspirin Therapy: Are they Coherent?

ConclusionMajority of the minor oral surgical procedures can be carried out safely without discontinuing aspirin in patients on low-dose long-term therapy. This is possible because despite significant platelet aggregation evident in laboratory evaluation there is lack of its clinical corroboration owing to aspirin resistance.Clinical Trial RegistrationCTRI/2018/02/012055.
Source: Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery - Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research