26 February 2024
: Case report 
Treatment of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws without Segmental Resections: A Case Series
Unusual clinical course, Challenging differential diagnosis, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Rare disease, Adverse events of drug therapy, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)
Tito Lúcio Fernandes
1ABCDEF*, Bruno Viezzer Fernandes 1CDE, Gilson Cesar Nobre Franco 1ADG
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.942980
Am J Case Rep 2024; 25:e942980
Table 3. Checklist of the main diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used to treat medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw.
| Diagnoses | Treatments | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient | Alveolar bone exposition | Suppuration | Gingival swelling | Conservative treatment* | Sequestrectomy and debridement | Marginal resection | Implant removal | HBOT | PENTOCO | Suture dehiscence | Relapse |
| 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| 5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| 8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 9 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 11 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| * Chlorhexidine rinses+antibiotics; PENTOCO – pentoxifylline+tocopherol; HBOT – hyperbaric oxygen therapy. | |||||||||||