Osteoporosis
Attention focused on emerging oral complication from supportive cancer therapy
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 9th, 2005
"The current report presented 17 patients with cancer with bone metastases and 1 patient with osteopenia who received treatment with bisphosphonates and who subsequently developed osteonecrosis of the mandible and/or maxilla. The authors reviewed information on 18 patients who were referred to oral medicine or oral surgery specialists for evaluation and treatment of mandibular and/or maxillary bone necrosis from June 2002 to September 2004," scientists in the United States reported.
"To be included in the current review, patients must have been treated...
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