Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an Adjunct for Treating an Individual with Poorly Healing Bilateral Mandibular Fractures Suspect of Developing Towards Osteomyelitis: A Case Report and Clinical Experience.

Conclusion: The patient completed 30 hyperbaric oxygen treatments and 30 d of intravenous antibiotics. Clinically, the patient responded well and showed healed intraoral wounds and an objective decrease in erythrocyte sedimentation rate over the course of treatment. Unfortunately, on serial imaging the patient showed to have fibrous non-bony union of left fracture site. Even though the patient will need a final definitive plate for his fracture, it will be performed from an extraoral approach with no evidence of underlying infection. PMID: 29546339 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research