Nasopharyngeal cancer patients receiving radiotherapy, it is prone to dry mouth, mouth ulcers, and other illnesses, if the mouth is also available in dental caries, dental, and other phenomena are prone to loosening infection, leading to cure complications - radioactive osteomyelitis, Always before radiotherapy cured dental. Beijing Tongren Hospital ENT physician, deputy director of the Richland Ma pointed out that patients with nasopharyngeal cancer radiotherapy should be pulled out before the dental caries and periodontal diseases cured all kinds to avoid tooth infection and inflammation, caused radioactive osteomyelitis. Some patients fear extraction wound left, unwilling to extraction. In fact, rotten teeth in the mouth such as inflammation, but also implicated other teeth. Radiotherapy before extraction, and so therefore Quchu the source of infection, the general wound healing two weeks after a radiotherapy. In addition, three years after radiotherapy should not extraction. This is because the anti-tumor radiation, while the normal tissues have different degree of injury, particularly bone marrow. After radiotherapy in patients with the ability to reduce tissue regeneration, extraction led to the wound can not heal, coupled with the radiation will cause damage salivary glands, saliva secretion reduction, increased acidity in the mouth, for breeding bacteria and easy to appear inflamed gums, alveolar Yi Pus, and so on. At this point if the tooth extraction, the symptoms induced jaw osteomyelitis. The patients received radiotherapy as a toothache, the widespread use of conservative treatment.
