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Treatment With Hyperbaric Oxygen

CAPT Elgene G. Mainous, DC, USN; CAPT George B. Hart, MC, USN

Arch Otolaryngol. 1975;101(3):173-177.

Abstract
Hyperbaric oxygen used in the treatment of 14 patients with intractable osteonecrosis of the mandible produced a favorable response in relief of pain, elimination of extraoral draining sinus tracts, the return of osseous union in areas of the abnormal fracture, and the rapid dissolution of sequestrum without suppuration, so that further loss of hard and soft tissue was minimized.

This treatment is a more conservative approach in the management of osteoradionecrosis.

Author Affiliations
From the US Naval Hospital, Long Beach, Calif (CAPT Mainous), and the US Naval Hospital, Long Beach, Calif, and the University of California Irvine, Irvine, Calif (CAPT Hart).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 12, 1974.

Read before the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc., Palm Beach, Fla, April 20, 1974.

The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the writers and are not to be construed as offical or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the Naval Services at large.

Reprint requests to US Naval Hospital, Long Beach, CA 90801 (CAPT Mainous).

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