Manimaran Kanakaraj, Marudhamani Chinnannan, Anbu Elangovan Nagarathinam, Ravi Velamor Rangarajan, Avinash Gandi Devadas, Madhan Jeyaraman
INTRODUCTION: Osteoradionecrosis (ORN), a non-infectious, necrotic condition of the bone, occurs as a major complication of radiotherapy to the irradiated site. Simple irrigation of the involved bone to partial or complete resection of the involved bones is being employed in its conventional management. Osseous tissue engineering (OTE) provides a new strategy by regenerating bone cells along with biocompatible scaffolds and micromolecules to produce an engineered osseous tissue. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, mandibular ORN following radiation secondary to oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma was included...
2023: Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery