X-Rays Help Predict Permanent Bone Damage From Bisphosphonates
Breast cancer patients, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies often take drugs containing bisphosphonates. These drugs have been found to place people at risk for developing osteonecrosis of the jaws (a rotting of the jaw bones). Dentists, as well as oncologists, are now using X-rays to detect “ghost sockets” in patients that take these drugs and when these sockets are found, it signals that the jawbone is not healing the right way.
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Filed under: Bones on May 11th, 2009
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