Floor of the mouth hemorrhage subsequent to dental implant placement in the anterior mandible

2019

María Peñarrocha-Diago,1 José Carlos Balaguer-Martí,1 David Peñarrocha-Oltra,1 José Bagán,1 Miguel Peñarrocha-Diago,1 Dennis Flanagan2,31Department of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 2Department of Dental Medicine, Lugano University of Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland; 3Private Practice, Willimantic, CT, USAAbstract: Complications in dental implant surgery are possible. Bleeding complications have been described that may be serious, particularly in the floor of the mouth. We present two cases of sublingual hematomas during dental implant osteotomies that impeded but did not close th…