Drug-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Jaws: How to Diagnose, Prevent, and Treat It

Bisphosphonates and the other drugs involved have made osteonecrosis of the jaws a familiar acquaintance of the oral surgeon. Robert Marx, who has spent decades arguing for drug holidays and other mitigating measures, brings together in this third edition what is needed to recognise the condition, understand its mechanism, stage it and act. The manual draws a clear line between two distinct scenarios — the patient treated for osteopenia or osteoporosis and the oncology patient, in whom withdrawing the drug is not always possible — and adds twenty cases showing how to proceed according to severity and general condition. A short, direct text of a little over a hundred pages, in English.