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No osteonecrosis in jaws of young patients with osteogenesis imperfecta treated with bisphosphonates
Author(s) -
Malmgren Barbro,
Åström Eva,
Söderhäll Stefan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2007.00607.x
Subject(s) - medicine , osteogenesis imperfecta , zoledronic acid , osteonecrosis of the jaw , bisphosphonate , surgery , retrospective cohort study , bone disease , osteoporosis , pathology
Background: Recent reports of osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) after dental surgery in patients treated with second‐ and third‐generation nitrogen‐containing bisphosphonates instigated this retrospective study. As treatment with bisphosphonates in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) has become an important symptomatic therapy, especially for severe forms of the disease, we found it important to investigate whether healing after surgical exposure of jaw bone was influenced by the bisphosponate treatment in our group of children, adolescents and young adults with OI. Subjects and methods: Disodiumpamidronate was given as monthly intravenous infusion to 64 patients with OI aged 3 months to 20.9 years at the start of treatment (mean 8.1, median 7.7). During 0.5–12.5 years of treatment (mean 4.5, median 4.0), a total individual dose of 140–4020 mg/m 2 disodiumpamidronate was given (mean 1623 and median 1460). Ten patients continued with oral alendronate and two with zoledronic acid therapy. In 22 of these patients, 38 dental surgery procedures were performed at the age of 3.4–31.9 years (mean 12.2, median 12.3) after 0.03–7.9 years of treatment (mean 3.6, median 3.4). Results: Despite long‐term intravenous monthly disodiumpamidronate treatment, none of the 64 patients had any clinical signs of ONJ. Conclusions: The risk of ONJ in these patients must be considered so low that the patients with indications for treatment should be treated and get the chance to experience the well‐documented beneficial effect for children with severe OI.