Maísa Pereira-Silva, Henrique Hadad, Laís Kawamata de Jesus, Maria Eduarda de Freitas Santana Oliveira, Juliano Milanezi de Almeida, Heloisa Helena Nímia, Osvaldo Magro Filho, Roberta Okamoto, Sérgio Bruzadelli Macedo, Celso Fernando Palmieri Junior, Francisley Ávila Souza
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of ozone therapy in the preoperative (prevention) and/or postoperative (treatment) of MRONJ. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Forty male Wistar rats were caudally treated with zoledronic acid (ZOL) and to ozone therapy before extraction (prevention, POG), after extraction (treatment, TOG), or both (prevention and treatment, TPOG), and treated with saline (SAL). The animals received intramuscular fluorochrome (calcein and alizarin), and 28 days postoperatively, they were euthanized, and the tissues were subjected to microtomographic computed tomography (microCT), LASER confocal, and histomorphometric analyses...
February 16, 2024: Clinical Oral Investigations