AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 5 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2021.65852
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Patient on Antithrombotics Drugs: Communication Between the Dentist and the Physician

Saibaba Mahalakshmi1 Suhas Setty1 Hariyabbe Rangaswamy Likhithaswamy2
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1 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Siddhartha Dental College & Hospital, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Tumkur, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Sri Siddhartha Dental College & Hospital, Tumkur, Karnataka, India
EJMO 2021, 5(4), 371–373; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2021.65852
Submitted: 8 September 2021 | Accepted: 12 October 2021 | Published: 1 December 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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None declared.
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