BLOOD LOSS IN ORAL SURGERY

¹ Department of Oral Surgery, Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y.

Blood loss was determined by a gravimetric method, as described, in a series of 175 patients admitted to the Millard Fillmore Hospital by 8 oral surgeons for extraction with alveolotomy under general anesthesia. Blood loss was found to compare with that incurred in many major general surgical operations as culled from the literature (Table II). Average losses exceeded those for simple mastectomies, inguinal herniorrhaphies, and hemorrhoidectomies, and maximum losses were in excess of those for hysterectomies and other pelvic operations, nephrectomies, cholecystectomies, herniorrhaphies (all types), and thyroideetomies.