Effectiveness of local hemostatic measures after tooth extraction in patients on antithrombotic therapy
In August 2018, Ockerman et al. [1] published a systematic review about local hemostatic measures after tooth removal in patients on antithrombotic treatment, excluding from the anal- ysis some articles whose outcome was not the number of bleeding events [2–6]. In that study, however, post-operative bleeding was not defined, and therefore, it can be supposed that, since bleeding is a natural event after tooth extractions, Ockerman et al.