Combined treatment by antibiotic therapy and surgery of chronic mandibular oste...

• Author(s): Daniel Pozza ; Nelson Ribeiro Neto ; João Macedo Sobrinho ; Jean Santos ; João Weber ; Marília Gerhardt de Oliveira
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/25728
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências da Saúde
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Chronic osteomyelitis of the mandible is usually a difficult pathology to resolve. Treatment has included long-term antibiotics, and surgical debridement, aggressive in some cases. This paper reports a 54-year-old female with an eight-month-mandibular chronic osteomyelitis who was successfully treated with the combination of medication and surgical intervention.