Developing an in Vitro Model of Post Extraction Bleeding and Evaluating the Feasibility of XSTAT for Dental Hemorrhage Control

Bleeding after a dental extraction is a common complication that is usually easily controlled; however, if the bleeding continues beyond 8 hours or is excessive it is often referred to as post-extraction bleeding (PEB). The current standard of care for tooth extraction and other dental injuries relies on messy and often ineffective hemorrhage control gels or applying pressure with gauze. XSTAT is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved device that treats non-compressible injuries through placing a collection of sponges within the injury. This same design can be scaled down (i.e., single sponge of smaller diameters) to treat a hemorrhaging extraction socket or other oral injury in a much quicker and cleaner way.