Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy presenting as a bleeding tooth socket.

Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) was diagnosed during haematological investigation of a patient with a persistent bleeding tooth socket. On further clinical examination an abdominal aortic aneurysm was found. No other cause for the DIC was detected. The DIC was treated and the socket healed. The patient refused to have definitive surgery for the aneurysm.