Carlos Madrid

Service of Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Hospital Dentistry, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

17. Osteonecrosis

Radiotherapy (RT) in high doses involving the oral cavity, maxilla, mandible and salivary glands may result in several undesired reactions, of which osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is probably the worst. ORN...