Open AccessTime required for haemostasis under pressure from dental extraction socket
Author(s) -
Saurabh Kumar,
Arun Paul,
Rabin Chacko,
Sarah Deepika
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_93_18
Subject(s) - hemostasis , medicine , dental extraction , dentistry , bleeding time , surgery , anesthesia , platelet aggregation , platelet
It is generally expected that the time required for a clot to form in an extraction socket must be similar to that of the average physiological bleeding time (2-9 minutes). However, in dental practice does hemostasis require the full clot to form or does it occur earlier? Conventionally there is no accepted average time range for socket hemostasis with estimates ranging from 20 minutes to 40 minutes. This study is an attempt to quantify the average time period required for hemostasis to occur in an extraction socket.