[Dental treatment and anti-thrombotic therapy. Part 1: clinical guideline]

The modern dental treatment plan opens a variety of new surgical rehabilitating treatments. Dental implants, socket preservation peri-apical endodontic surgery and alveolar bone augmentation were introduced to dentistry within the last three decades. The common characteristics of all these treatments are the surgical technique involving soft as well as heard tissue. Within the last decade various new anti-thrombotic indications for treatments of patients at risk for thrombotic events and a new armamentarium of anti-thrombotics techniques were introduced. Both medical improvements confront the dental health providers with the problem of surgical treatment with the threat of bleeding. The treatment approach is based on a tradeoff between major bleeding versus a catastrophic thrombotic event. The magnitude of bleeding risk is a summation of the antithrombotic treatment and the extant of surgical treatment. In this article we will summarize the clinical guidelines of dental treatment for patients under anti-thrombotic treatment.