Osteomyelitis of the mandible as a complicating factor in paget's disease: A case report

Abstract

Paget's disease is a chronic progressive disturbance of bone metabolism, characterized by simultaneous resorption and apposition neither of which are related to functional requirement, resulting in larger amount of less dense bones that are very vascular and fragile. When the jaws are involved with Paget's disease, even routine and systemic procedures may become complicated. Osteomyelitis when occur with Paget's disease, it complicates the disease. A significant number of patients develop osteomyelitis secondary to locally infected extraction sites. We present a case report of 59 years old male patient with osteomyelitis of mandible as a complicating factor in Paget's disease.

Admission dental examination: protocol and its importance in the diagnosis of oral pathology

“…Considering the possibility of clinical findings with systemic origin in addition to the specific conditions of oral health in the admission examinations carried out, there are several studies that support the importance of knowledge of oral manifestations of diseases such as tuberculosis 8 , leprosy 9 , Parkinson's disease 10 , ankylosing spondyloarthrosis 11 , later stages of Paget's disease 12 and AIDS 8,13 .…”