Dental consideration and management
of the cirrhotic patients 
- Titipong Prueksrisakul D.D.S., M.D.
Abstract :
Cirrhotic patients require careful dental care because of several pathophysiologies and complications
due to hepatic dysfunction. Dentists should understand basic knowledge about cirrhosis in
order to be able to evaluate medical status of the individual cirrhotic patient preoperatively to reduce
the risk of complications from dental treatment. This review article summarized information about
etiology, clinical features, oral manifestations and severity of cirrhosis as well as dental consideration
and management of cirrhotic patients, including preoperative patient assessment, modification of
frequent drug use in dentistry, bleeding disorder and the risk of infection from dental treatment in order
to encourage dentists to modify dental treatment plan appropriately for individual cirrhotic patient.
(CU Dent J. 2014;37:241-50)
Keywords :
cirrhosis; dental consideration; dental management; end-stage chronic liver disease