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Luis Junquera, DDS, MD; Lorena Gallego, MD; Pedro Villarreal, MD, PhD
Central University Hospital, Oviedo, Spain

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(11):1229.

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A 66-year-old man with multiple myeloma presented with a 6-month history of swelling and pain in the edentulous right premolar mandibular region. He reported that he had undergone 1 tooth (premolar) extraction 1 year earlier and 2 unsuccessful alveolar debridements after the extraction in another center. One year before presentation, he had been treated monthly with intravenous zoledronate (Zometa) infusions, at a dose of 4 mg, over a period of 15 minutes (17 sessions). Intraoral examination revealed a painful moderate expansion of the alveolar bone at the surgical site. The surrounding soft tissue was erythematous and edematous (Figure 1). Panoramic radiography (Figure 2) and computed tomography with multiplanar reconstruction of the jaws (DentaScan) revealed a bone sequestrum in the right mandibular region (Figure 3 and Figure 4). Conservative treatment with a combination of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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