The dentist should know all about your medication

The dentist needs to know if you take medication or wrong thing. Many patients fail to disclose their drug use, although it may prove to be decisive for the outcome of a dental treatment that the dentist is informed. Almost every tenth Dane taking blood thinners to prevent blood clots. But while preventing blood clots can cause another problem - namely, increased tendency to bleeding. The bleeding may occur for example when the patient must have a tooth extracted or conducted a thorough dental cleaning.

It has for years been quite common practice for patients on blood thinners should pause in their medication before they should have made an intervention by a dentist. New studies now show that there is a greater risk of stopping treatment than with the bleeding that might. may occur in the crackdown, said overtandlæge specialties by orthodontic department at Glostrup Hospital Simon Storgård Jensen.

Dentists must instead take precautions when treating patients for anticoagulant therapy. There is substantial and usually relatively easy to stop the bleeding before the patient leaves the clinic. Numerous drugs may also help to increase the risk of bleeding, and therefore it is important to know so you can be extra careful, especially with the use of painkillers and antibiotics, emphasizes Simon Storgård Jensen.

A good advice is: Tell your dentist all. Even if you can not see that the medicines you take, have no relevance to your dental treatment.

The importance of good communication between dentist and patient is turned onto the Dental Association's Symposium, where Simon Storgård Jensen are among the many presenters. Dental Association Symposium will take place on 6th-7th november in Aarhus at the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel. Slightly more than 1,600 dentists and 600 dental assistants participating in the event that has the medical compromised patients as the main theme.