ESTEVES, Jônatas Caldeira et al. Assistência cirúrgico-odontológica a pacientes com história de infarto do miocárdioSurgical-odontologic assessment to patients with myocardial infarction history. RGO, Rev. gaúch. odontol. (Online) []. 2011, 59, 2, pp. 285-291. ISSN 1981-8637.

The execution of a appropriate odontological surgical treatment for patients with Myocardial Infarction has been based in established protocols for important works in world wide literature during the sixty's and seventy's decade, established with a minimum of six months before the noncardiac surgery. The recent advancements in the medical assessment of surgical risk based on the individual analysis of each case with availability of new therapeutic tools in reference to medical or dental treatment, allowing for new procedures that can be used in the execution of safer odontological surgery for each patients. This review of the literature shows the actual tendencies of the treatment of patients with Myocardial Infarction concerning specific care before, during and after surgery based on laboratory evaluation and drug therapy as well as the possibility of surgical treatment before six months post-infarction

: Dental care; Oral surgery; Myocardial infarction.