Guy Palmer

King's College London Dental Institute, Associate Specialist, Department of Community Special Care Dentistry, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK

Special care dentistry: part 1. dental management of patients with inherited bleeding disorders

Haemostasis depends on interactions between the blood vessel wall, platelets and the clotting pathway. Once a vessel sustains an injury, there is an automatic reflex vasoconstriction to stem the blood...