Bone Abstracts

This case study is based on the results of the clinical observation of 48 patients aged 22–40 years with toxic necrosis of the jaw bones (28 of whom had a lesion of the mandible, 10 – lesions of the upper jaw, 10 – lesions of both jaws). All patients were observed in the maxillofacial department of Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital. However, only one patient had been referred to the department with the diagnosis ‘toxic osteomyelitis’, 18 – sent with a diagnosis of ‘malignancy’, 20 – diagnosed with ‘the chronic odontogenic osteomyelitis’, 2 – with the diagnosis: ‘pathological fracture of the mandible’.

?steonecrosis of the jaw in patients who use drugs containing red phosphorus, such as Perventin, is characterized by severe, protracted course, the diffuse nature, the rapid expansion process, the low efficiency of treatment and frequent relapses. Knowledge of the characteristics of the clinical course of toxic necrosis of jaws, in our opinion, will enable future dentists to carry out a more accurate diagnosis of the disease, choose the best methods of surgical treatment, general treatment and medical rehabilitation of patients.

As the result of the growing number of people using synthetic drugs an increase in cases of atypical osteomyelitis of the bones of the facial skeleton has been observed lately. In our study, we summarized diagnostic data and clinical data of this category of patients.