Minor oral surgery under anticoagulant therapy: A review of the literature

Objectives: This literature review seeks to know the management, as well limitations, indications, hemostatic measures and risk which compromised patients are exposed either by modifying treatment or decreasing dose prior surgery treatment, establish management of under therapy; before, during after surgery. Materials methods: a was carried out period September - December 2022. The sources used were PudMed, ScienceDirect Medline databases. search terms were: (Warfarin) AND (Oral surgery), (Anticoagultion bridge ) (Anticoagulant) (Dental extraction) (dentistry). Results: total 6281 articles identified from three databases used: pubmed, sciencedirect medline. After applying exclusion criteria, 3557 eliminated, leaving 2724 for reading eligibility, resulting in 56 articles, 11 duplicate excluded, 45 analysis elaboration literature. Conclusions: with direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) vitamin K antagonists (VKA) present intraoperative postoperative bleeding, where VKA presents higher compared DOAC; it is recommended not suspend administration before Hemostasis can be controlled using different measures.