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Dental management of patients after liver transplantation
1Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry, Richmond.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Liver transplantation over the past 10 years has become a nonexperimental therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease and offers hope to many for whom no treatment was previously available. As more patients undergo liver transplantation and survival rates continue to improve, the dental profession must adopt a protocol for dealing with these patients. With this in mind, a protocol for dental management of the patient who has had a liver transplant is presented. Two cases are presented to illustrate the importance of dental intervention.