Zaki Kudsi

Specialist Oral Surgeon, East Finchley Smiles, 144 The High Road, East Finchley, London, N2 9ED, UK

Facial skin lesions dentists should know

BCC is the most common type of skin cancer on the sun-exposed areas of face, head and neck. It accounts for about 75% of non-melanoma skin cancers.1,2 BCC presents as an epidermal neoplasm; a...

Management of bleeding disorders in the dental practice: managing patients on anticoagulants

Warfarin is commonly prescribed for prophylaxis or therapeutic treatment of thrombo-embolic disease and arrhythmias. It acts as a vitamin K antagonist so it affects the synthesis of active factors II,...

Bleeding disorders seen in the dental practice

A number of classifications are in use for bleeding disorders.1,2 Some are based on the main three processes of halting bleeding (such as the vasoconstriction, gap-plugging by platelets and the...