Oral infection can complicate many types of heart surgery. Our dental team collaborates with your cardiologist and cardiac surgeon to ensure a safe and successful surgery.
A surgeon may need dental clearance before a procedure for surgeries like open heart surgery or artificial joint replacement surgery.
This clearance is required due to scientific evidence that high-risk oral bacteria can spread throughout the body from a bleeding gum and risk the healing of an artificial joint. This complication can result in surgery failure, increased revision costs, or long-term health consequences.
At Dazzling Smile Dental Clinic, we provide the highest level of care to all of our patients to reduce their risk and eliminate any of these high-risk oral bacteria, which are known to cause artificial joint failure and can lead to systemic inflammatory diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and pregnancy complications.
We know that a simple 30-minute tooth cleaning and sign-off for surgery isn’t good enough, so we go above and beyond the standard of care by performing a saliva test for high-risk oral bacteria. This method ensures that a potential asymptomatic infection in your mouth won’t drive inflammation in your body, which can lead to surgical complications.
We provide this service to any patient undergoing surgery who would like a full assessment of their oral health before an elective procedure. Dazzling Smile of Malaysia is also founded on medical-dental collaboration, so we offer this service to surgeons as a way to reduce your surgical liability from any post-surgical complications. We go above and beyond traditional Kuala Lumpur dental clearance to ensure that both the surgeon and the patient are safe to undergo invasive surgery.
If you are a patient in need of a dental clearance in Kuala Lumpur or a surgeon looking for a dentist to refer to, please contact us.
