Marcumar patients and dental treatment
Can Marcumar patients receive implants? Basically yes! Thanks to modern digital dentistry, patients with blood thinners can also be treated safely.
As a patient, please contact your dentist, family doctor or internist! Taking blood thinning medication is generally no reason to forego the comfort of implants.
In close consultation with the family doctor, the INR/Quick value on the day of implantation - no further adjustment is required thereafter.
The discontinuation of anticoagulants is in most cases not necessary. Studies show that the risks of discontinuation are higher than the low risk of bleeding during surgery.
Good interdisciplinary cooperation between Dentist and family doctor is crucial, as the risk of secondary bleeding is often overestimated.
If the coagulation inhibition is within the usual range, the risk of postoperative bleeding for minor procedures - e.g. extraction or implantation - is no higher than for healthy people.
Local measures such as collagen sponges, careful suture care, dressing plates and irrigation with tranexamic acid are usually sufficient to ensure that the wound heals safely.
Whether complete plastic coverage makes sense remains controversial - the additional tissue trauma The additional tissue trauma often outweighs the benefits.
