Abstract

Hyperbaric oxygen was used in the treatment of intractable osteomyelitis of the mandible. Dentists are frequently called on to manage postoperative bone infections. In spite of comprehensive antibiotic therapy, the occurrence of osteomyelitis after tooth extraction is not infrequent. The dentist is then faced with management of an intractable infection of the bone that seems to resist all conventional therapy. Hyperbaric oxygenation from the study reported here appears to offer a new type of treatment for these resistant cases of osteomyelitis.

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