Risk factors for osteoradionecrosis of the jaw in patients with oral or oropharyngeal cancer: Verification of the effect of tooth extraction before radiotherapy using propensity score matching analysis

• Main Authors: Yuka Kojima (Author), Mitsunobu Otsuru (Author), Takumi Hasegawa (Author), Nobuhiro Ueda (Author), Tadaaki Kirita (Author), Shin-ichi Yamada (Author), Hiroshi Kurita (Author), Yasuyuki Shibuya (Author), Madoka Funahara (Author), Masahiro Umeda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/purpose: Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (ORN) often occurs in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy (RT). It has been recommended to extract the tooth before RT that may become source of infection, but in recent years, some investigators have reported that tooth extrac...