The Effect of Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy (DOACs) on oral surgical procedures: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) were developed to overcome the drawbacks of oral anticoagulants. However, not much has been discussed about the perioperative management of patients on DOACs during oral surgical procedures. Thus, we aim to determine the risk of perioperative and postoperative bleeding during oral surgical procedures in patients on DOACs.

Methods

A detailed literature search was performed to find potentially relevant studies using the Cochrane Library, Clinical Key, ClinicalTrials.gov, Google Scholar, Ovid, ScienceDirect, and Scopus. Every article available for free in English literature for the past 10 years, between 2012 and 2022, was searched.

Results

A total of 2792 abstracts were selected through a search strategy across various searc

SUBMITTER: Darwish G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10566068 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature